George Russell has been handed a significant boost in his world championship bid after it emerged Mercedes have resolved his mysterious engine problem. Russell’s race ended following a collision with Lewis Hamilton which arrived after he was exposed to the chasing pack following a first-lap engine glitch. A day earlier, a deployment riddle – first blamed on Russell’s driving style – then contributed to him qualifying half-a-second behind Antonelli. And if you sit there and don’t express your views, maybe you find an issue, maybe you don’t, but you don’t move forward. “We’re all humans within the machine, within the race car and we’re fighting for everything we’ve got.”