Russell expecting difficult Miami GP – "There’s no grip whatsoever!"
George Russell says he is expecting Sunday's Miami Grand Prix to be difficult for everyone, citing the lack of grip available offline at the Miami International Autodrome.
For 2023, race organisers opted to resurface the track in order to promote overtaking, but according to Russell, the resurfacing may have had the opposite effect, with Charles Leclerc, Nico Hulkenberg and Nyck de Vries all coming to grief against the barriers across Friday's two practice sessions.
"We'll go into Sunday a bit of an unknown," Russell said after FP2 on Friday.
"The track's been resurfaced. It's still not performing like any other circuit, so it's a true outlier here, which is cool in some regards.
"I think is going to be really difficult to race because you can't drive offline, and you've seen a few people, myself included, you put one wheel off and there's no grip whatsoever ."
Russell himself had topped the timesheets in FP...