He said: “I can not express the pain you are experiencing, especially right here. In the end you just pray it ends. We are still in such a good position, the third and fourth is a great result for the team. The team did a great job with the strategy. “Once we fix this bounce, we will be right there in the race. We will definitely lose at least a second to bounce. I’ll be at the factory tomorrow, we need to have some good discussions and keep pushing.” During the fight, Hamilton appeared to scream “my back is killing me”. The seven-time champion struggled with Mercedes bounce problems all weekend, claiming after qualifying that his back was in “real chaos”. READ MORE: Mercedes apologizes to Lewis Hamilton after the British woman was in distress The Silver Arrows benefited from a double withdrawal from Ferrari as Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz ran into engineering problems. This meant that the team was the second fastest car to finish the race and return behind the Red Bull pair. Hamilton was approaching Russell in the early stages before losing at the pit stops to fall behind a pile of cars. That ended his chances of challenging his team-mate, but Hamilton managed to secure fourth place to equal the second best result of the season. Russell’s third place is the third podium of the former Williams player of the season. After the fight, he said: “To be honest, I was glad to see the fight end. Just breaking the ground every corner, every round. “Very brutal, I will sleep well tonight. Especially on a track that is usually not very physical. This is exactly what we have to deal with and live in right now. We as drivers have to accept [it]. “There will be no short-term changes, but there are discussions about the long-term future of these regulations. We have a lot of brilliant engineers and smart people in this sport. I’m sure we will find the right solutions.”
