Ayrton Senna said it: 'If you don't go for the gap you are not a racing driver.' On Sunday during an enthralling Emilia Romagna Grand Prix George Russell went for one on Valtteri Bottas, miscalculated, crashed paying a mighty price and with it a great opportunity for him went begging. Let's be straight Russell sending it on the outside as they hurtled into Variante Tamburello was ballsy stuff, conditions did not favour that kind of bravery as we saw in the resultant mess. As a racing driver, Russell was expected to go for the gap, imagine if the move had worked, had he made it stick; had the grass been 10cm further away he would have probably edged past but fate decided differently and the...
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