Anthony Davidson says George Russell was probably 'fuming' while he raced Lewis Hamilton in Japan but was 'very British about it'.
Lewis Hamilton ‘understudy’ George Russell must be ‘fuming’ over SuzukaGeorge Russell and Lewis Hamilton opposite one another looking at monitors in the Mercedes garage. Spain June 2023
Fraught radio communications and team orders played a role in the outcome in a race in which the two came close to crashing when Hamilton ran himself and Russell wide through Spoon with both drivers off the track.Russell, clearly not happy with his team-mate’s antics, asked over the radio: “Who do we want to fight here? Each other or the others?”
“For now they are behaving themselves but there’s definitely a hierarchy in that team and rightly so,” the former F1 driver told the Sky Sports F1 podcast. “Lewis has earned that status in that team as a seven-time World Champion and George can’t argue against that. “But then he’s a good boy on the radio and he takes it. You can tell he’s very British about it and there are layers to the nuance, so I think it always comes over as ‘Yeah, I’m okay with this but if you could please, very thankfully, much appreciated’.
“I think it clearly would, yes,” he said. “It becomes much more personal, and much more competitive when you’re fighting for a championship rather than fighting for the positions they were in say the Japanese Grand Prix, for example.
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