The Mercedes driver has impressed at his new team but tells Giles Richards there is still plenty to do as he prepares for the British Grand Prix
by a team strategy error and then a puncture at Sakhir when standing in for Hamilton in 2020 as examples –Russell is determined to grasp the positives from adversity.
George Russell, pictured in practice for the British GP, is the only driver to have finished in the top five at every race this season.Yet even in this challenging season, his first at the sharp end of the grid, he has delivered, something his team principal, Toto Wolff, has acknowledged. “We were never in any doubt that he would be very good,” he said. “You can see that it’s materialising on the track. I like his approach very much.
Russell has been relentlessly consistent this season, the only driver to have finished in the top five at every round. He has finished in front of his teammate seven times and leads him by 34 points. Hamilton has only been beaten by a teammate twice in his career, by Jenson Button at McLaren and Nico Rosberg at Mercedes. Russell’s numbers do not tell the whole story but they make for an impressive introduction to what should be a long career at Mercedes.
“Obviously, I want to beat my teammate and I’m not going to take offence if he says the same,” he says. “But I would not see my season as a success purely because I’ve finished ahead of him more times than he had finished ahead of me. I would see it as a success if I was standing at the top step of the podium.”
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