MOSCOW, Mar 18 British Mercedes pilot George Russell said that The pace of the team's new race cars is at the level of the middle peasants of Formula 1. On Friday, the first stage of the new season of the Royal Races, the Bahrain Grand Prix, started on the Sakhir track. In the first and second practices, Russell showed the fourth time. His teammate seven-time world champion Briton Lewis Hamilton finished seventh and ninth respectively. «We are far from the pace of Red Bull and Ferrari. It looks like we are on the same level with Alfa Tauri and Alfa Romeo, if not worse,» Russell was quoted as saying by the official Formula 1 website. .On Saturday at the Bahrain Grand Prix will be the third free practice and qualification.
