George Russell will begin Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix from the pit lane after taking up new energy unit components.
The Mercedes man had initially certified a disappointing eleventh after affected by brake points on Saturday, which made driving spherical a treacherously moist Marina Bay circuit much more troublesome.
With that in thoughts, Russell and Mercedes have opted to tackle new engine components which include hefty grid penalties.
‘A difficulty with the brakes that received progressively worse led to a very powerful qualifying,’ the 24-year-old posted on social media after qualifying.
‘Disappointing, however we’ll be working exhausting in a single day to discover a answer. The automobile has very robust tempo right here and we’ll be doing every thing we will to recuperate the misplaced positions tomorrow.’
In the meantime, Russell’s teammate Sir Lewis Hamilton fared significantly better and can line-up third on the grid, because the seven-time world champion goals to assert his and Mercedes’ first win of 2022.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc claimed pole place on Saturday, edging Pink Bull’s Sergio Perez and Hamilton by just some hundredths of a second.
Max Verstappen, who can win his second championship at Singapore, will solely begin eighth after a weird error from Pink Bull left the Dutchman with out sufficient gas to finish qualifying.
Verstappen, who celebrated his twenty fifth birthday final Friday, was visibly and vocally livid together with his group, saying: ‘It’s extremely irritating.
‘Discovering out it was the gas… Mainly, we ran out of gas, however these items you may observe all through Q3, and they need to have let me end the lap earlier than, the place we had been already on a pole place lap.
‘On the finish of the day, I could make errors, the group could make errors, however I feel it’s at all times vital that we might be essential to one another when individuals make errors, as a result of these items, they shouldn’t occur.’
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