Russell outpacing Kubica by half a second en route to 19th on the grid in Abu Dhabi meant he completed a rare whitewash in qualifying head-to-head over a season against the Polish F1 returnee.
And while Kubica was within half a tenth of Russell’s best time in both Bahrain and China, he would never get that close again for the rest of the year, ending up with a median deficit of 0.488s to his …Keep reading