Nothing is a given in Formula 1, with some of the most talented drivers having to wait for their chance, while other drivers who bring in sponsorship money continue to be favoured. An example of this would be Nyck de Vries, who despite winning the F2 championship all the way back in 2019, has had
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Mercedes’ 2022 season can be described as nothing other than a nightmare, as the team struggled to a third-place finish in the championship following a shambolic start to the new regulations. The Silver Arrows were forced to tackle a severe porpoising problem in the early stages of the season, with the violent bouncing causing both
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Everything that you could possibly have predicted about Mercedes in 2023 seemly went the opposite way in a turbulent year for the Silver Arrows. The team finished third in the constructors’ championship, George Russell secured the team’s only win of the season and Lewis Hamilton completed the first winless season of his illustrious career. The
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It was a challenging 2022 campaign for Williams, with the Grove-based team having returned to the foot of the Constructors’ Championship. Their fall back to the bottom comes on the back of 2021, which was a massively improved year for the British side, who claimed eighth in the standings after some impressive drives from George
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George Russell’s maiden season with Mercedes was perhaps not quite what he would’ve been expecting after his move to the Silver Arrows was announced, with the Brit likely having assumed that he’d be a title challenger in 2022. If this was what he was predicting, then actually it’s very easy to understand why, given that
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Mercedes needed to make changes in the early stages of the 2022 season, as a major porpoising problem and general lack of pace put the team at risk of become caught up in a midfield battle. George Russell was seemingly able to extract a reasonable amount of performance from the car, as he secured consistent
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The roadmap for George Russell has always ended with the young Brit driving for Mercedes, but the team decided that a spell at Williams would be the most beneficial route for Russell before he takes on the pressure of a seat with the Silver Arrows. The 24-year-old was a massive success at Williams, so when
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Lando Norris and George Russell are close friends away from the race track, competing in multiple racing categories together before both entering Formula 1 in 2019, with McLaren and Williams respectively. Norris was signed by McLaren as a young driver to build the team around, while Russell was signed by Williams with the aim of
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Mercedes have had a nightmare start to the new era of Formula 1, after dominating the previous decade with Lewis Hamilton. The Silver Arrows have been the team to beat in recent years and they were expected to come flying out the blocks and continue their dominance under the new regulations that came into effect
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Mercedes have not had anywhere near the start to the new era of Formula 1 that they would have wanted, winning only a single race as they struggled to compete with Red Bull and Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton would have hoped to have bounced back immediately from his heartbreak in Abu Dhabi last year, but the
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