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George Russell returned to on-track action today at Paul Ricard, for Pirelli’s 2023 tyre test. Lewis Hamilton is scheduled to return to the track on Thursday.
With the 2023 season right around the corner, Alexia takes a look at whether George Russell can achieve his dream of becoming an F1 world champion this year.
George Russell says he doesn’t look at 2022 races “with regret”, and adds 2023 “is going to be an exciting season”.
George says in 2022 he “was getting a better car than I was used to, whereas Lewis was getting a substantially worse car than what he was used to”.
Toto Wolff accepts “that there can be a rivalry between our drivers, but this rivalry must never degenerate into a conflict that could damage the team”.
In a new video, George Russell takes a look at photos from 2022, and talks us through various moments of the year.
George says “there will be a slightly different dynamic” between him and Lewis if they are “fighting for 1-2s”, but “it kind of feels like we are in this together”.
George Russell says being Lewis Hamilton’s team-mate at Mercedes is “probably helping me gain a few years of experience”.
Russell says Hamilton “does things so differently to so many other people”, and compares that to Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
Toto Wolff says at the beginning of 2022 “you could say George was doing very well, and then in the last third of the year, it was Lewis”.
