“It was a very, very difficult session, especially in Q3 as I did a mistake in the first run and then I only had one lap. It was a very good lap and the car was amazing too, so very, very happy.”. “To be on the front row is a good performance but I would like to have gone for that final lap,” he said, admitting that Red Bull had struggled to find a balance in the car this weekend. “It was the first time all season we were at the top of the timesheets during one of the qualifying sessions,” Russell said. “I started the lap just behind Lando thinking that I had, like, one or two seconds’ margin with the red light but it was like 20 seconds’ margin.

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