Lewis Hamilton was having none of it as George Russell overtook him on track at Suzuka, but how will their partnership evolve?
George Russell’s ‘future of Mercedes’ promise is slipping through his fingersMercedes team-mates George Russell and Lewis Hamilton go to battle. Japan, September 2023.
In Singapore, Hamilton was there to pounce on Russell’s critical error on the final lap, while the team made a team order call in Hamilton’s favour towards the end of the Suzuka race.By and large, Hamilton and Russell’s partnership has worked quite well over the past two years.
Despite their struggles, it was a harmonious year – Russell settling into the role of the eager young padawan alongside the master, enjoying matching and occasionally beating Hamilton. Russell, alongside, is in the unenviable position of realising that the dynamic he had perhaps envisioned is no longer playing out. At the end of his second season with Mercedes, he is facing up against an adversary as mighty as anyone has ever been in Formula 1.
But – and this is not a joke – perhaps what needs to happen is not this tense-but-not-hostile environment that has been fostered by a Mercedes eager to maintain a conservative command of the situation, but a collision that allows the simmering tension to boil over. And, even more prior to that, Nico Rosberg and Hamilton’s willingness to collide may not have been the best for Toto Wolff’s heart health, but it gave Rosberg the mental fortitude he needed to dig deep enough to eventually defeat his teammate.
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