In Friday's qualifying session, a noticeable gap emerged between the two W15s
In Bahrain qualifying, Russell secured P3, and Hamilton placed P9, Idman.biz reports with referring to FanNation.
On race day, Russell finished fifth, Hamilton seventh, with overheating issues due to an unsuitable cooling configuration.
Despite Hamilton mentioning varying setups and discomfort with race pace, Russell refutes it, saying both cars were similar, his more focused on race performance during qualifying.
Hamilton: “I wasn’t comfortable with my race pace [in practice]. So I changed the car to hopefully make the race pace better but we’ll see if that’s really the case.”
Russel: “Many people have said this. I don’t really know the big differences, to be honest, because as far as I’m aware with the cars we’re pretty similar.
I don’t really focus too much on his set-up. Mine was actually more set up for the race than the set-up he ran. At least it was on Friday.”
Idman.biz
