Comments made by George Russell last season have certainly backfired, after the Mercedes driver insisted to Channel 4 that Lewis Hamilton wouldn’t move to Ferrari. The huge news announced this week is that Hamilton will be a Ferrari driver in 2025, with 2024 being his 12th and final campaign with Mercedes. Hamilton has agreed a
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Lewis Hamilton is comfortably the most popular British driver on the Formula 1 grid and by far the most successful in the sport, but who will lead the charge for the United Kingdom when he eventually calls it quits? Whilst Hamilton is only just at the start of a new two-year contract, the 39-year-old is
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George Russell has stressed that despite colliding with Lewis Hamilton multiple times in 2023, the duo still “trust one another”, quashing any suggestions of tension between them ahead of the 2024 season. After finishing ahead of Hamilton in the 2022 Drivers’ Championship and becoming just the third teammate of the seven-time World Champion’s to have
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George Russell has pinpointed why his form turned for the better in the closing stages of 2023, after changing up his mentality after listening to Fernando Alonso. After finishing third and finishing ahead of Lewis Hamilton in his maiden Mercedes season, Russell entered 2023 full of belief and expectation that he could replicate his 2022
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Ex-Formula 1 driver turned pundit Martin Brundle is unsure which Mercedes driver would come out on top, if given a car that is capable of challenging for the title. For the last two seasons, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton have been given difficult cars to tame by Mercedes, which have stood no chance in the
MoreGeorge Russell has admitted that he’s “not satisfied” with drawing 11-11 with Lewis Hamilton in qualifying this year, as he’s desperate “to be ahead” of the seven-time World Champion. After becoming just the third teammate of Hamilton’s to finish above him in the Drivers’ Championship in 2022, Russell was very much the number two driver
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1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve believes Lewis Hamilton’s fight back this year has been the reason for George Russell’s “mindset” changing, after he shot onto the Mercedes scene in 2022. After making the switch from Williams to Mercedes for the 2022 season, Russell was given the task of simply performing at his best
MoreGeorge Russell has revealed that Mercedes are looking into why himself and Lewis Hamilton were never able to produce similar pace to one another, in what was a bizarre theme for the team throughout 2023. From the outside, Russell and Hamilton drawing 11-11 in their qualifying head-to-head would suggest that the pair were equally matched
MoreGeorge Russell has admitted that 2023 was “one of the worst seasons” of his motorsport career, as he was so often unable to get the most out of the W14. This wasn’t necessarily his fault, as Lewis Hamilton also struggled with how inconsistent Mercedes’ 2023 challenger was. However, whilst Hamilton also found this year a
MoreGeorge Russell was left seemingly unhappy to have drawn 11-11 with Lewis Hamilton in their qualifying head-to-head in 2023, after being informed of the score at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Russell managed to qualify fourth at the season finale following a good session, whilst Hamilton could only salvage 11th after being eliminated in Q2.
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