George Russell reveals the Lewis Hamilton prank th...

George Russell entered Mercedes as an ideal admirer of Lewis Hamilton. Shedding mild 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 F1 group’s YouTube channel in a video celebrating his a hundred and fiftieth race in Method 1, Russell defined what grew to become a well-known prank from his time with the seven-time world champion. 

“Evan, certainly one of our engineers had printed off a photograph of Lewis and I from after I was like 10 years outdated, and he positioned it round the entire workplace. He printed off 30 items of this.

“I believe 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 top 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 stated in July 2022. “We have labored collectively extremely nicely.

“George has been tremendous constructive… had a constructive affect on the work atmosphere. It is usually been an actual pleasure to work with him and it has been nice to see his success. He is completed such an ideal job, bought nice factors for the group and he’ll proceed to enhance, he’ll proceed to enhance for a very long time.”

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 consider in your self as a driver, however you simply by no means know till you get the prospect,” Russell added within the video. “Can I win a race? Can I combat for a championship?

“And I believe for me, that was like, I do know I can do that now, and given the tools, I do know I’ll take my possibilities,” he stated in reference to 2020’s Sakhir Grand Prix the place he stepped in for Hamilton. 

“That was so painful for me,” he stated about his ninth place end after a puncture price him an close to win. “However my life is not any completely different right now had we gained that race or not.”

With a set of latest rules for this season, Russell might be hoping the rumours of Mercedes’ sturdy energy unit may give him comparable alternatives. 

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