Technical issue is the main villain of Williams’ ace George Russell, who consistently produced better pace with low-profile machine. During the Styrian Grand Prix, he forced to retired from the race following Power Unit issue, that had cost him to loss a significant opportunity to finish with good points.

George was started from 10th, delivered a great start and to move up to the eighth position by the end fist lap. Made first pit-stop on lap 25 for the hard compound, pitting again on very next lap before ultimately retiring the car, following the very strange PU issue.

“I’m just gutted for the team to be honest,” he subsequently told reporters. “You know, they’ve worked so hard to be in this position over the past three years, chasing these points. We never really knew when they would come and we knew we’d have to have a perfect weekend and, you know, we were in such a great position… P8, on the medium tyre, we would have been able to pounce at the end.

“I think P7 was probably possible,” he sighed, “ahead of Alonso and there’s four or six points, its massive… it’s the difference probably between P8 and P10 in the championship.”

This one hurt. Every single member of the team should hold their head high today. We were up there on merit. Racing can be brutal but we keep fighting.

— George Russell (@GeorgeRussell63) June 27, 2021

Another frustrating day for the Brit, who is highly recommended for Lewis Hamilton’s teammate seat spot for 2022 Formula 1 season at Mercedes.

When the source asked about the fact that he got himself in the heart of the midfield battle, Russell said: “I wasn’t surprised to be honest, because I know we’ve done some really great work recently to improve the car and I knew the pace on Friday was strong.

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“I was obviously on the mediums compared to the guys ahead on the softs, so I was driving my heart out, driving as fast as I could to keep behind the Ferrari and AlphaTauri and McLaren, you know?

“We’re not normally in this position so we should be proud of the job we did. Racing is just brutal.”

Russell said that it was “just a technical problem” that Williams was looking into, confirming it was “something to do with the pneumatic pressure”.
Since the first F1 appearance at the start of 2019 season, Russell’s made one only point finish with Mercedes in 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, when race for champions as a substitute role for Hamilton, who suffered with Covid-19.