"Marcus, I've got a f**king car in my a**": George Russell's rage-fuelled team radio during F1 Mexican GP

Mercedes star George Russell had a stressful day in the car at the 2025 Mexican GP, raging about drivers cutting corners and complaining about the team not swapping the cars when required. One of such moments was when Oscar Piastri was hunting Russell in the latter stages of the second stint, and the Briton raged at his race engineer.

George Russell started the race in P5 but was overtaken by Max Verstappen into Turn 1. After the first pit stops played out, the Briton came out between Kimi Antonelli and Oscar Piastri. As the trio passed the slower cars on the older tires, Russell was able to create a 2-second gap to Piastri and break the DRS.

The Briton then asked the team to swap him and Antonelli around since he had the better pace, and so that he could use it to chase down Oliver Bearman. Russell was told that he's free to overtake Antonelli if he thinks he has the pace, and the swap request was delayed.

The same led to a sequence of rage-fueled radio messages from the British driver. Russell was not able to pass the rookie teammate, used up the tires trying to follow the Italian closely in an attempt to make an overtake, and was caught up by Oscar Piastri, whom he had previously created a couple of seconds gap to.

Amid this, George Russell's race engineer, Marcus Dudley, took to the radio and instructed the Briton to get the rear tire temperatures under control, which caused the 27-year-old to lose his cool.

“So rear surface temperatures are sky high George. Let's get these under control,” said Marcus Dudley “Marcus I've got a f***ing car in my a**. Ok? A car much quicker than ours. I'm trying to hold position. I've got much more pace than Kimi here and we can fight for a podium. I'm happy to give the position back if I don't achieve it. But my tires are just getting f***ing sat here,” replied Russell

Kimi Antonelli was eventually instructed to swap places with George Russell, but the Briton wasn't able to make any dents in the gap to Oliver Bearman.

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George Russell slams the stewards as Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc went “lawnmower racing” at the Mexican GP

Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen cut the first corner on the opening lap and rejoined the track without losing any position. The same led to a radio message from George Russell, questioning whether either of them had been given a penalty for the same.

After the race, Russell spoke with Sky Sports and slammed the inconsistency with the stewards' decision, as he said,

“You know, we've seen it almost every year we've been here. I think it was Carlos [Sainz] last year, Charles the year before, Lewis 10 years ago. It's like a lawnmower racing.” “Something needs to change there. Because as I said, if you can just send it down the outside, you can either make it stick or you just cut the grass and you return in the position you were in before. That's not really how it should be.”

George Russell finished the race in P7 behind Kimi Antonelli as he had to give the position back to his teammate, as he promised, after Oscar Piastri overtook both Mercedes.

Edited by Pranay Bhagi