Russell to take further grid penalty this season

George Russell says he will be taking a further grid penalty this season in addition to the one he has been hit with for the Singapore Grand Prix. George Russell is 84 points behind Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli in the drivers' championship George Russell says he will be taking a further grid penalty this season in addition to the one he has been hit with for this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix. The Briton will start Sunday's race from the back of the grid because he needs to fit a new engine which takes him beyond his permitted number for the season. But he says that he will have to take another new engine, as soon as a planned upgrade is ready, to get him to the end of the season.

Russell said: "You get (a limit of) four engines a season, so six races on each, and we have seven races to the end. So I will be taking another penalty, so yeah it's pretty relentless at the moment." Russell's engine failure in Malaysia scuppered Mercedes' previous plan for him to last out with his older engine until the upgrade was ready, most likely for the next race, the United States Grand Prix in Austin. Russell to start from back of Singapore grid after penalty "I knew I was going