George Russell has personally confirmed that he’ll stay at Mercedes for the 2027 season, though he admitted that no contract announcement will likely be made throughout the Pink Bull Ring weekend.
Russell ends hypothesis over Mercedes future regardless of no official announcement
Earlier on Thursday, experiences emerged within the Italian media claiming Mercedes had activated an choice in Russell’s contract. GPblog, nonetheless, understands that this isn’t the case, that means no official announcement is predicted. As reported by the Every day Mail forward of the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, Russell dismissed any uncertainty surrounding his future, insisting he’ll nonetheless be racing for Mercedes in 2027 and stressing that the matter has by no means been doubtful internally.
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“No announcement this weekend, however I will be racing right here subsequent yr. 100 per cent. It hasn’t even been mentioned (with Toto Wolff). We need not focus on it. It is not even a query mark. I do not wish to go into any extra element, however I will likely be right here subsequent yr and that is the actual fact of it.”
Picture: Race Photos
Picture: Race Photos
Mercedes is now set to start subsequent season with the identical driver pairing it has relied on for the previous two years. After an up-and-down rookie marketing campaign, Kimi Antonelli has emphatically silenced his critics with a sensational second season thus far, exhibiting exceptional progress all year long and rising as a strong championship chief regardless of his retirement in Barcelona.
Russell, in the meantime, has fallen barely in need of the lofty expectations that adopted his spectacular 2025 marketing campaign, which had seen many tip him because the favorite for this yr’s title. Even so, with solely a 3rd of the season accomplished, he stays firmly within the combat. As Verstappen proved final yr, nothing will be dominated out till the ultimate race, particularly with vehicles which are nonetheless within the early phases of improvement and have loads of room for enchancment.
Verstappen doesn’t wish to speak about his future anymore
Earlier on Thursday, the four-time world champion was requested whether or not the most important improve bundle being launched on the RB22 this weekend, along with the outcomes over the following few races, may play a decisive position in shaping his System 1 future. Nevertheless, chatting with GPblog, Verstappen shifted the main focus again to Pink Bull’s efficiency, insisting the group’s precedence is just to make the automotive quicker. He acknowledged that the group remains to be missing tempo and burdened that no person is happy with competing additional down the order, including that everybody is absolutely centered on getting Pink Bull again to the entrance.
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“It is simply essential. I feel for us as a group, we wish to simply enhance from the place we began this season to the place we wish to finish it. We all know that we’re missing efficiency, so it is extra about simply making an attempt to enhance the automotive. I feel that is what everybody desires. We do not prefer to be the fourth greatest group, so we wish to be higher, and that is what we’re engaged on in the mean time.”.
