Those that know whom George Russell is, know that he won GP3 (old F3) and GP2 (Old F2) in his rookie seasons. Mercedes have bankrolled him since 2017. Why? Because he is that good. Williams signed him as paid (likely with Merc pay) and will hold a contract, even though the car is a shit box. The circuityesterday itself had both left and right hand turns so the car set up would have been similar to the race before. Engineers comment BTW. Hard braking zones were still there. Russell of course did better seeing he did not fit the car properly at all. Would he beat Hamilton? Possibly, but Lewis is in his prime. He is only a year older than Senna was and Schumacher was still winning loads of races at that age. Cars win WDC and WCC titles, it is very rare that the best car does not win during the year. I can only mention 1982 (drivers in the best car were killing/ending their careers in accidents), 1986 and 1991 (Because the Williams FW11 and FW14 broke down so much and Senna was on fire) and 2008 (Hamilton was better that the Ferrari Drivers). Bottas knows his time is likely to be over sooner than later. Hamilton will not be finished soon unless he gets bored by it all. He has won races like Fangio, Stewart, Clark, Senna and Schumacher, because he is as good as them. You may not like his mixed race view on the world, has he been called names? More than likely, I am from the same part of the world and know people that happily used the language than my kids do not use. I have seen rascist language used by members of the RAF. I wasn't impressed by the elders that used it then. If I had been their boss at the time. I would have been the first to use the 252.
