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Russell feels Kimi cost him first F1 points

George Russell felt he could have scored the first points of his career before a race-ending tangle with Kimi Raikkonen at the Eifel GP. Raikkonen tried to make a move on Russell down the inside at Turn 1 of the Nurburgring, but would understeer into the side of the Briton, almost flipping his Williams over. The contact would cause a puncture but also race-ending damage to Russell's FW43. Raikkonen received a ten-second time penalty for the incident on a day where he set a new Formula 1 record by making his 323rd race start, and without that contact Russell felt he could have reached a milestone of his own, that being his first points in Formula 1. “It was obviously frustrating,”...
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