George Russell entered Mercedes as a fantastic admirer of Lewis Hamilton. Shedding gentle on what their relationship was as the 2 proficient drivers raced alongside one another on the Brackley group, Russell revealed how an engineer as soon as wallpapered the workplace with a photograph of the 2.
Speaking on the Mercedes Method 1 group’s YouTube channel in a video celebrating his a hundred and fiftieth race in F1, Russell defined what grew to become a well-known prank from his time with the seven-time world champion.
“Evan, one in all our engineers had printed off a photograph of Lewis and I from once I was like 10 years previous, and he positioned it round the entire workplace. He printed off 30 items of this.
“I feel Lewis was extra irritated with it than I used to be. I assumed it was nice. This was pre-Lewis’s style sense. And I don’t suppose he appreciated it an excessive amount of.”
When Russell arrived on the Silver Arrows, Hamilton was a transparent benchmark, and by the tip of the bottom impact period, Russell had edged Hamilton by 22 factors.
“I will not say it has been robust [being Russell’s team mate]; it has been nice,” Hamilton mentioned in July 2022. “We have labored collectively extremely effectively.
“George has been tremendous constructive… had a constructive influence on the work atmosphere. It is typically been an actual pleasure to work with him and it has been nice to see his success. He is executed such a fantastic job, bought nice factors for the group and he will proceed to enhance, he will proceed to enhance for a very long time.”
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The now-Ferrari driver added on the time that he believed Russell had the potential to be champion sooner or later, one thing that Russell is now totally in settlement with.
“You at all times imagine in your self as a driver, however you simply by no means know till you get the possibility,” Russell added within the video. “Can I win a race? Can I combat for a championship?
“And I feel for me, that was like, I do know I can do that now, and given the tools, I do know I’ll take my probabilities,” he mentioned in reference to 2020’s Sakhir Grand Prix the place he stepped in for Hamilton.
“That was so painful for me,” he mentioned about his ninth place end after a puncture price him a close to win. “However my life isn’t any totally different immediately had we gained that race or not.”
With a set of recent laws for this season, Russell might be hoping the rumours of Mercedes’ sturdy energy unit might give him comparable alternatives.
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