Mercedes have no problems with how Lewis Hamilton and George Russell battled each other at the Japanese Grand Prix, describing it as “hard racing”.
Hamilton and Russell went head-to-head on track on several occasions at Suzuka.
At one point, both drivers went off the track at Spoon as Hamilton defended the position from Russell. The pair’s battle went down to the final laps, with a split in strategy resulting in convergence at the end of the race. Hamilton was able to get past Russell after Mercedes deployed team orders, leaving the latter vulnerable toReflecting on the battle, Bradley Lord - who is acting as a Toto Wolff stand-in alongside Jerome d’Ambrosio - said: “They race each other hard on a hard-racing track. It’s easy to read a lot into those radio messages in the heat of the moment. As always, we talk about it away from the pressure and the high temperatures of the cockpit in the debrief after.
“That’s where anything gets tidied up that needs tidying up. The one-stop worked for Lewis. With George, he was ahead of Alonso. It offered an opportunity to Sainz. It didn’t quite work out ultimately but it was worth a gamble.”
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