Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and George Russell weren't giving each other an inch as the pair battled for position at Suzuka.
Mercedes aiming to ‘tidy up’ Lewis Hamilton and George Russell radio disputeMercedes' George Russell and Lewis Hamilton battle during the Japanese Grand Prix.
In the early stages, Russell briefly managed to get ahead of Hamilton, only for the seven-time World Champion to swoop back past on the pit straight, while Russell found himself being pushed wide at Spoon corner shortly after.In the closing stages, with Russell having run a one-stop strategy to Hamilton’s two, the pair encountered each other again.
Speaking after the race to Sky F1 in the absence of team boss Toto Wolff, Mercedes’ communications chief Bradley Lord was asked about the terse radio messages.“I think it’s always easy to read a lot into those radio messages in the heat of the moment. As for whether he thought the radio instruction to swap positions was the right call to make, Russell appeared to hint that it wasn’t.“You saw Oscar Piastri with much fresher tyres and a much faster car this weekend, he didn’t fly by, you know? It took him two laps to achieve that, he only just achieved it.
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