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I'm better off driving at 98% says Russell

George Russell believes he could extract more pace from his Williams car driving at 98% rather than 100. Despite an impressive start to 2019 for the Brit where has regularly had the beating of team-mate Robert Kubica, Russell thinks he can do better – an unusual way to achieve this being to not drive at the limit to reduce the FW42's unpredictability. 'I'm happy in some aspects,' he told Motorsport.com. 'There's definitely room to improve from my side. Certainly I haven't managed to optimise qualifying in the last two races. 'I think I still need to understand and respect the limitations of the car. Sometimes you would go quicker driving at 98% than at 100%. It's a learning process...
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