George Russell thinks Williams can take “small positives” away from practice at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The British team remained firmly positioned at the bottom of the timesheets in Catalunya, however, by the end of Friday, the gap between Russell and Sergio Perez was under a second.
“The pace was closer than what we expected really,” the Mercedes junior admitted post-session. “Small positives to take from that and we learned some good things from the things we did test.
“I think it’s normal for everybody to bring a big upgrade to Barcelona but we’re sort of testing things week in week out to try to get a clearer picture of our car, and understanding.
“I don’t think anybody would bring an update big enough to bring us from the back of the field forward, but the tests we did today were very positive in the sense of giving us a good understanding.”
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Russell would end Friday half a second clear of Robert Kubica, with the Polish driver again questioning if he has equal machinery to his teammate.
“In FP1 the car felt a bit better, FP2, not really,” he said. “I think I didn’t have any big updates here on my car which I could feel any difference compared to previous races.”
Interestingly, though, George revealed he was in the same car which Kubica had been sceptical of in the opening races of the season.
“I’m in Robert’s chassis this weekend, there was a new chassis he was getting, but then because my chassis was damaged from Baku, I’ve now been allocated this chassis,” Russell said.
“He’s in my Baku chassis, I’m in his chassis from the start of the year.”
