George Russell has been delighted with the impact Sir Lewis Hamilton has had on his career during their first season together at Mercedes. Russell had been part of the Mercedes junior programme for two years when he signed with Williams in 2019, and he out-qualified team-mate Robert Kubica at every race. The Pole would score their only points of the year in Germany, but that was not enough to keep him at the team, while Russell stayed on for two more years alongside Nicholas Latifi. The 24-year-old’s first Williams points at the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2021 were followed by his first podium in Belgium, and this earned him a drive with the Silver Arrows, replacing the Alfa Romeo-bound...
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