Mercedes team-mates Lewis Hamilton and George Russell collide on the opening lap of the Qatar Grand Prix.
Mercedes lost out on the opportunity to claim a significant haul of points as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell collided on the opening lap of the Qatar Grand Prix, but could the team have prevented the incident from occurring? With Russell starting second and Hamilton third, behind the Red Bull of newly crowned world champion Max Verstappen, the British pair came together at the first corner.
'So I don't understand why it wouldn't have been the Mercedes strategy to say, 'okay guys, this is what we're going do. Lewis is on the soft, he is going to come round you. George, you are not going to fight him, and he is going try and get Max, and that's what we're going to try and do.''And so George would have understood that they weren't racing each other, and that Lewis was going to go round.
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