{"id":432444,"date":"2023-04-01T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432444"},"modified":"2023-04-01T05:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:24:10","slug":"george-russel-wants-to-go-for-it-against-verstappen-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/george-russel-wants-to-go-for-it-against-verstappen-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"George Russel wants to &#8216;go for it&#8217; against Verstappen in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes driver George Russell will start the Australian Grand Prix behind Max Verstappen after ending up just 0.236s behind the world champion in Q3 at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>Although Verstappen heads into Sunday\u2019s race as the heavy favorite for victory, Russell shared that after its strong qualifying result, Mercedes\u2019 expectations of a successful race could be altered given the chance to attack the polesitter early-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to go for it, haven\u2019t we? We\u2019ve got to go for the win. Max is going to be extremely fast, there\u2019s no hiding that. I think it\u2019s difficult to overtake around this circuit, so the start, lap one, is going to be vital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, let\u2019s see how we get on. We\u2019ve got to do our race. But if the opportunity is there, we\u2019ll go for it.\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes driver George Russell will start the Australian Grand Prix behind Max Verstappen after ending up just 0.236s behind the world champion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432445,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17140],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[18340,1081],"acf":{"announce":"\"Max will be extremely fast, but we have to go for it\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432444"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432444"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}