George Russell says the Belgian Grand Prix is "still a win" in his mind despite his heartbreaking disqualification.
to head a Mercedes 1-2 last time out at Spa-Francorchamps, only to be stripped of the victory after his car was found to be 1.5kg underweight.
Asked if he’s confident the team now understand exactly what happened, Russell responded: “Yeah, absolutely. Clearly, we didn’t do a good enough job. “So it was sort of these three or four factors all coming together that just pushed us over the edge.”“I don’t think you need to take more margin. I think the processes weren’t quite in place to cover all the different scenarios,” he explained..
“But there are things that now, with the benefit of hindsight, we can do better and we will be doing better moving forward. As always, you need to make a mistake first until you recognise there’s a problem.”“Of course, it’s very frustrating that the one time in three years we’ve been just under the weight limit was the race we won, but there’s zero hard feelings,” he said. “We’re in this together and it will make us stronger for the future.
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