George Russell executed his best lap in qualifying at Silverstone in Q3, but the Williams driver says it was his second lap in Q2 that provided him with a massive step forward and a boost in confidence. Russell upheld his unblemished record of making the Q2 cut in Friday's early evening qualifying session. But that appeared to be as far as he would go, until a massive 0.441s improvement on his second run ensured his safe passage to Q3. The feat was a crowd-pleaser for a young man that was greeted on Friday by the British fans as their second favourite son after Lewis Hamilton. But in the final segment of qualifying, Russell did even better, unleashing a 1m26.971s lap that positioned him P8...
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