I agree with this assessment completely. Especially after the pre-race talks about working as a team to keep the Ferrari's at bay. I was almost expecting what you described after seeing Lewis on the softs and how much of a short term advantage they offered yesterday.

While not at "fault", it was dumb of Russel to put his car there. There was no way he was going to be far enough alongside to be given room at the exit; Max was just going to push him off.