Despite all the obvious difficulties that Mercedes faced in 2022, the team can at least be proud of how George Russell and Lewis Hamilton worked together throughout the campaign, where they extracted the most from the poor W13. Given that it was Russell's first season at Mercedes, the British driver performed valiantly all year and was staggeringly stronger than Hamilton in the first half of the season. Alas, Hamilton did become stronger in the second half of the year after overcoming some issues, most notably the horrendous porpoising phenomena. A strong relationship between the two was visible, with the eagerness to improve being key to the team's incredible one-two at the Brazilian...
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