The car has been notoriously tricky on bumpy circuits, and despite extensive resurfacing work at the track teams are expecting to see issues this weekend.

However, Russell believes that Mercedes now has a better understanding of the car, and that Singapore will be a good test of that.

Asked what were the factors that potentially worked for and against the team, Russell suggested that the circuit layout will be favourable.

"I think the factors in favour are the high-downforce set-up, our car seems to work better on the higher downforce [circuits]" he said,

"[Plus] our competitors, the fact that Red Bull are very, very efficient with their straightline speed, and here that doesn't come in too much of an effect. So their advantage will be less.

"But the ones that go against us are the

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