Mercedes technical director Mike Elliott has been discussing the strategy the team put George Russell on at the start of the Miami Grand Prix, affirming that they were hoping there might be a Safety Car to help him out. Having looked extremely quick during practice, Russell could only manage 12th in qualifying as team-mate Sir Lewis
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Valtteri Bottas’ switch from the Mercedes F1 Team to Alfa Romeo has proven to be almost a stroke of genius, with the latter performing much more consistently so far this season. In his final couple of seasons at Mercedes, Bottas began to underperform after constantly being in the shadow of Lewis Hamilton. His departure from
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Former Formula 1 driver David Coulthard affirms that George Russell is justifying Mercedes’ faith in him with his strong performance in 2022. There is no question that Mercedes have struggled under the new technical regulations that have seen their car stumble in the first five races of the year, and a podium a piece for
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has praised George Russell’s integration into the team since his arrival from Williams, and is particularly impressed with his attitude. Russell spent three years racing towards the back of the field for the Grove-based team, and he scored an exquisite podium last season in Belgium while scoring points on four
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has not ruled out the possibility that the team may decide to run wider sidepods in a bid to try and improve their fortunes, but he would like to make the “zeropods” work. The new technical regulations have cultivated lots of different concepts from the teams, and one of the
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Sir Lewis Hamilton was impressed by the consistency of George Russell’s pace in the opening stint of the Miami Grand Prix after the 24-year-old beat him to fifth. Hamilton out-qualified Russell for the third time this season in Florida when he started the race sixth, while the younger Briton was left “confused” as to why
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has revealed that racing in the midfield having become accustomed to winning is “still racing,” just not as he knows it. The Briton has won four of the last five world championships and, between the start of the hybrid era in 2014 and the end of last year, the 37-year-old claimed 81
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It was another grand prix to forget for seven-time world champion Sir Lewis Hamilton in Miami after finishing behind his new team-mate George Russell for the fourth time this season. Hamilton struggled to make progress through the field at the Miami International Autodrome, after starting from sixth. Russell on the other hand made superb progress
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Former Formula 1 driver Mika Hakkinen says Mercedes had a “strange weekend” in Miami, but it turned into a respectable points haul for the Silver Arrows. Mercedes turned up in Miami with upgrades to the car that were aimed at limiting their “porpoising” struggles and capitalising on the long straights and slow corners at the
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has not had the easiest start to the 2022 season, but is there really such a massive cause for concern? Hamilton was out-raced for the fourth successive time by George Russell in Miami having also been out-performed all weekend in Imola, at the end of which the 24-year-old picked up a fourth-placed
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