Fernando Alonso believes George Russell’s impressive Mercedes debut means it is difficult to compare F1’s young talents – because so much is about the car. Russell went from the back of the pack to the front in the space of one week in Bahrain when he deputised for Sir Lewis Hamilton, who was suffering from COVID-19. Slowest in FP2 for Williams at the Bahrain Grand Prix – having sat out FP1 – Russell led for much of the Sakhir GP on a different layout of the same circuit the following weekend before a team pit-stop blunder and a puncture eventually left him down in P9. But the Briton’s ability to make such drastic progress so quickly indicates that the talent of he and his...
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