There are still five races to go until the end of the 2022 season, but after 17 GPs disputed, we can already begin to draw overall assessments regarding some riders. One of them is the young English talent George Russell, whose first year as a Mercedes driver could be defined as bittersweet. The former Williams standard-bearer had been waiting for his big chance for years and tried to make the best of it, scoring podiums and arriving at this point of the season with a 33-point lead over his teammate – and seven-time champion. of the world – Lewis Hamilton. But Russell also joined Mercedes in the first season since 2014 in which Brackley’s team is not in contention for the world title.
Furthermore, if the silver arrows did not find a sharp point between now and the end of the championship, 2022 would go to the archives as the first year since 2011 in which the Star’s house does not collect even a single victory. These numbers don’t seem to represent the best possible viaticum for the future, but # 63 doesn’t think the same way. Talking with Sky Sports F1, in fact, Russell underlined how the team headed by Toto Wolff is trying all possible ways to be able to get back competitive as early as next year. “We have a philosophy that we will try to adopt in our development and I am very confident that it is the right one – revealed Russell – but at the same time this does not mean that we will necessarily be able to achieve it“.
The Englishman had fun playing the mysterious, not revealing further details on the development path undertaken by the team after having mistaken the basic concept of the car for the current season: “It is something that we have worked very hard on and which we hope will give us an advantage for the next year – Russell added – so I don’t want to say anything that could potentially benefit our rivals. We had problems with porpoising, with the set-up, with the car touching the ground and damaging the bottom. We have had so many different problems and now we believe we have found a direction to follow“he concluded.
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