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Motor racing – Russell says he’ll start on equal terms to Hamilton

September 9, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 9, 2021

By Alan Baldwin

(Reuters) – George Russell said he would start on equal terms with seven- times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes next season but played down the prospect of friction between the two.

The 23-year-old Briton will be Hamilton’s third team mate at Mercedes and the first pairing with Nico Rosberg, who won the 2016 world championship, descended from warm friendship to glacial.

“I am definitely going on level terms,” Russell told reporters at the Italian Grand Prix, the first race since the announcement.

“That was made very clear to me. Mercedes are always respectful in that regard to give both drivers the best opportunity.”

Russell is replacing Valtteri Bottas, the Finn heading to Alfa Romeo next season and a comfortable team mate for Hamilton since 2017.

Bottas also was assured of equal status but has effectively played a supporting role to Hamilton, the most successful driver in the history of the sport.

That has suited Mercedes well enough, with the team winning the last seven drivers’ and constructors’ titles and wary of returning to the sort of friction-filled set-up of the Hamilton-Rosberg years.

“I think Mercedes have had clear experience of a poor dynamic within the team, and they have made it absolutely clear that they don’t want a repeat,” said Russell. “On a personal level as well, I don’t want that either.

“Lewis and I are at very different stages of our career, which I think also helps.

“I have a huge amount of respect for him, just being so much younger and sort of looking up to him as a young karting driver changes that dynamic a lot, too. I don’t see there being any issues at all.”

Asked whether two race drivers of equal ability could be team mates without polemic, he added: “I think so…there is no reason why there would be any falling-outs or anything. I’m sure we’re going to race each other respectfully but hard at the same time, as Lewis and Valtteri have over the past five years.”

Hamilton said he did not know what to expect but it had never been his style to demand preferential treatment and nor had he wanted any sort of veto over a team mate.

“I remember joining in 2013 and saying to Ross (Brawn, then principal) that I just want equal opportunity.

“That is the most rewarding position to be in because if you do the work, and you do succeed, then you know you’ve done your job against whoever it is at their best. Winning when someone’s wings are clipped, that’s not something that interests me.”

(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Ed Osmond)

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David Barret
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