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Asked for his thoughts on the day, Russell responded: “Obviously firstly glad to see Kimi was okay, [it was] a big crash and never nice to see. The mechanics did a great job to get the car ready for FP2, as chances are it was going to be really delayed but [we] still managed to get half an hour in.
“The car seems to be fast – Lewis did a great job, top of the timesheets. But I need to review overnight with my side, I literally got maybe three or four push laps in so not the most productive Friday I’ve ever had.”
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Quizzed on whether his fast laps at the end felt okay, Russell answered: “Yeah it felt alright, it felt okay. It is a bit of a strange one, [the track is] resurfaced this year, I think it is ramping in every single lap and there seems to be quite a lot of degradation at the moment.
“But that could potentially change come Sunday, so I think we just need to be alive to the situation and see how it evolves during the race weekend.”
In terms of whether he could be in the fight for pole position and the race win, Russell admitted that he is uncertain of where things stand.
“I really don’t know, I need to look into it,” the 26-year-old conceded. “On my side I only got half a session in. We were on the old parts for FP2, Lewis was back on the new stuff which I think was working as expected, so for tomorrow, I’m pretty confident we’ll be proceeding with that.”
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