Russell: "I was quite shocked by that to be honest"

Williams driver George Russell believes it will be easy to get back into his Formula 1 car next weekend. He also expects that coming into driving mode will not be difficult.

No tests

Russell wasn't able to test a car during the break, as the drivers of Ferrari, Mercedes and some other teams were able to. The young Briton was surprised by how easy it was to get back into the Williams simulator and that he had the rhythm right back.

"I’ve driven on the sim and my first five laps were absolutely terrible. But by my 12th lap I was actually quicker than what I was prior to Australia, same track, same set-up, everything exactly the same. I was quite shocked by that to be honest", Russell said in the Sky F1 Vodcast.

Procedures

"It took a little while to remember some of the procedures we had to do, and the way I worked with my engineers", says Russell. 

"I think that’s probably going to be the biggest thing, when you talk about rhythm, remembering exactly what feedback my guys need, how I need to drive in certain ways for the out lap, in-laps, cool down laps. That’s probably the point where we’ll make a couple of mistakes", Russell ends.