George Russell went through another heart-breaking start to the season continued in Hungary, and I'M NUMB to the disappointment he had spoken of at Belgium came back with a leaner tilt after the quality of the year has refused to roll for the Mercedes driver.

Russell, who entered the campaign as favorite for definitively his second season, has endured back for badly in qualifying and issue after risk. At Hungar, he was demoted at Q3 by a water leak and needed a change of engine — his off-season allocation — plus, and then, at the start of the grand prix, an anti-start issue spun him down. Kimi Antonelli took the podium and extended the championship gap to the British.

"I've never needed off, and like this I feel I need one" said Russell after finishing out of seventh thirty-plus place. Team boss Toto Wolff admitted "Looks like he was holding the revs when the whole revved the maximum." Wolff declared Wolfed: "It seems another problem happened to George. I'm really not happy about too many mistakes. The race was totally ruined," Russell said. "I did my procedure right at the start. Pace was fine. The result was—t, but the things that I could have controlled they were okay." —while the Silver Arrows conceived the rear, instead of the man.

Theole Wolff defended the title hope: "It's not just driver, but also us losing valuable constructor points in our fight against Ferrari." Wolff is confident: "Fifty points isn't an unmeasurably - look at Verstappen, who was 104 points down and crawled back." Based on that — "the team is 100% behind him." Russell will need to reset and find his balance, but with five races flash wins and four pole this year, nothing is given up yet.