Nonetheless, Russell insists that there have been indicators of velocity that instructed that the race represented a missed alternative for him.
The Briton began Saturday’s dash from solely eleventh place after working out of latest tyres for the dash shootout and picking up a three-place penalty for impeding.
He managed to get well to seventh, though was demoted a place by a five-second penalty handed down for overtaking Oscar Piastri’s McLaren beyond track limits.
Russell then crossed the road seventh in Sunday’s Grand Prix, having certified fifth on Friday after which misplaced three positions in the beginning. However he was boosted two spots within the last outcomes following the disqualifications of Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
Hamilton, in the meantime, was second to Max Verstappen in each the dash and the primary race, earlier than he misplaced his end result within the latter.
Russell was adamant that there was rather more potential in his weekend had every little thing labored out higher and when requested about it by Autosport stated this was the “story of the season actually”.
“It looks like missed alternatives, on the again foot from the start, making a nasty begin,” he mirrored.
“After which we put the arduous tyre on, we needed to handle the gasoline, we needed to handle the engine a little bit bit, and I used to be a few second off the tempo.
“Then we put the medium again on, and we have been the quickest automobile on observe, closed in on Max by about 10 seconds, and on Lewis by a few seconds.
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George Russell, Mercedes F1 W14, Pierre Gasly, Alpine A523
“So I am standing right here pondering it was undoubtedly one other missed alternative, and irritating that we weren’t on the rostrum.”
Increasing on that theme, he added: “Once I have a look at the tempo at this time, I feel that final stint was a extremely good instance of what the potential was.
“It is typically high-quality margins. I used to be off the tempo in qualifying, and are available Q3, the tempo was there once more, after which on the medium tyres in dash qualifying, I used to be forward in SQ1, SQ2, and I did not have a brand new tyre in SQ3.
“So it is simply a kind of the place we have been simply on the again foot from the start. And as I stated, it simply feels just like the story of the yr, standing right here.
“I feel final yr, I do not suppose we ever missed a possibility in all probability as soon as in 22 races, whereas this yr, it looks like 50% of the races we have been removed from maximising the factors.”
Russell denied that the suggestion that the dash format had made life more durable for him relative to his team-mate.
“We had that final weekend, and it was one in all my strongest weekends, in Qatar,” he stated.
“So to be truthful, Austin’s at all times been a little bit of a bogey observe for me, at all times struggled a bit right here, in all probability at all times been one in all [Hamilton’s] strengths, this circuit.
“However I am not too involved as a result of it looks like that is undoubtedly a little bit of an outlier with how bumpy it’s, actually {old} tarmac with all of the subsidence and cracks round it. So I am not involved.”