Lewis Hamilton declares 'there is no way' as George Russell 'super happy' at Mexico GP

George Russell and Lewis Hamilton person shared their thoughts connected qualifying astatine the Mexican Grand Prix, with the Mercedes drivers acceptable to commencement successful 5th and sixth respectively

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell had contrasting emotions aft finishing qualifying astatine the Mexican Grand Prix.

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr volition commencement the contention connected pole, followed by Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc. Russell and Hamilton volition enactment up successful 5th and sixth respectively and look a stiff combat to unafraid a podium finish.

And Hamilton is not feeling assured heading into the race, admitting: "The car felt bully successful P3 and I didn't alteration thing qualifying, it conscionable wholly turned connected its head. Definitely a frustrating qualifying session, but that's each league I've had this year."

Hamilton besides ruled retired a repetition of his awesome show astatine past year's Mexican Grand Prix, wherever helium managed to decorativeness 2nd aft starting the contention successful sixth. "There's nary mode we're going to beryllium doing that this play with the car that we have," helium admitted.

"Maybe George is much comfy connected the older package, I don't know. We'll see, we'll get bully readings of which is champion for the future." And Russell insisted helium was "super happy" to decorativeness 5th successful qualifying, having been progressive successful a high-speed clang successful practice connected Friday.

"A antithetic 1 [car] to yesterday due to the fact that that 1 was broken," helium said. "I'm truly blessed with the recovery, evidently we're inactive connected the aged bits from 12 races ago. My thigh felt really, truly beardown and I'm ace blessed with.

"Just a tenth from P3 and aft yesterday we'd person taken that. I'm not excessively definite what it means for tomorrow, evidently you've got Checo and Piastri retired of position. P5 is astir apt the astir we could person hoped for.

"The 3 teams successful beforehand person got a spot of a conflict connected their hands, truthful possibly the contention volition travel towards us." In a abstracted interrogation with Sky Sports, Russell described his last qualifying thigh arsenic 1 of his "best of the season".

He explained: "It was truly adjacent with Lewis and I the full session, I don't cognize what happened with him astatine the end. My thigh I was truly blessed with, I deliberation it was 1 of my champion of the season.

"At the extremity of the time I was inactive fractional a 2nd oregon truthful from rod presumption but we cognize from 1 league to the next, if you instrumentality yesterday arsenic an example, I was quickest successful FP1 and the 2 laps I did successful FP2 we were P10. So, it's not conscionable down to the upgrades."

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