Mercedes driver George Russell revealed that his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, offered to swap upgrade packages after Russell's high-speed crash during the United S

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff labelled a five-second penalty given to George Russell as a “total joke” in the early stages of the US Grand Prix. Russell, who started in the pit-lane, was making his way through the field when he went for an overtake on Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas.

He qualified sixth despite crashing at the very end of qualifying for the United States Grand Prix, but the damage done to George Russell's car led to a parc ferme breach