Could Russell’s row with Verstappen spill over into F1 2025?
George Russell’s extraordinary row with Max Verstappen across the final two grands prix of the 2024 Formula 1 season was as explosive as it was unprecedented. Although the end of the campaign cut off the discourse, there is every likelihood that it will erupt again throughout the 2025 season. In a remarkably honest and wide-ranging […]
The Russell vs Verstappen spat isn’t over and that’s good for F1 2025
It was rather unexpected. George Russell, atop the sun-soaked Mercedes hospitality/engineering building in the Abu Dhabi paddock ahead of the 2024 season finale, about to unleash 15 minutes just savaging Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Russell’s agitation even shone through his dark-tinted sunglasses. This clearly wasn’t a path he found comfortable, and there were awkward missteps […]
Ranking the F1 drivers under most team-mate pressure in 2025
The new Formula 1 season is now just around the corner, with the 2025 campaign expected to be a continuation of last season’s unpredictable battle right across the grid. With McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes all seemingly on course to bring battle to the still just about frontrunning Red Bull squad, it could even rival 2021 […]
Why Russell thinks his natural driving style suits the current F1 cars well
George Russell believes his “natural driving style has worked well” with the current generation of Formula 1 cars and is another reason behind his excellent qualifying record in 2024. Russell ended the previous campaign with a 24-6 qualifying split against his now former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and also finished one place above the seven-time […]
Why Russell ranks his lost Spa F1 win above his 2024 Vegas domination
George Russell reckons his lost 2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix victory was a better drive than his Las Vegas domination because of how in the former he held off Lewis Hamilton’s charge. Russell’s mid-race switch to a one-stop strategy meant he cycled to the lead at Spa when his Mercedes team-mate Hamilton had led convincingly […]
Russell never expected GPDA F1 role to get «so political»
George Russell “never expected to have so much on my hands and for it to be so political” in his Formula 1 role as a Grand Prix Drivers’ Association director. Since the start of the 2021 season, Russell’s third in F1, the Mercedes driver has been a director of the drivers’ body, as he replaced […]
The psychological breakthrough behind Russell beating Hamilton in F1 2024 quali
George Russell puts his comprehensive Formula 1 2024 defeat of former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying down to being “psychologically in a really good place”. The 26-year-old ended the 2024 season with a 24-6 qualifying record against Hamilton, with all sessions including those that set the grid for sprint events taken into consideration. This […]
Las Vegas GP qualifying analysis
Ben Hunt and Mark Mann-Bryans take up their putters and head to a mini-golf course as they discuss qualifying at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Between swings, the duo discuss George Russell taking his fourth pole position of the season ahead of Carlos Sainz and a surprise third for Alpine’s Pierre Gasly. There’s also more […]
Mercedes «read race wrong» with Hamilton Singapore F1 strategy
Toto Wolff has conceded Mercedes «read the race wrong» with Lewis Hamilton’s strategy at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Hamilton pulled out a stellar effort to turn his qualifying fortunes around and take third on the grid at the Marina Bay Circuit, lining up behind championship protagonists Lando Norris and Max Verstappen. But when […]