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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”.
George Russell says it was hard for him to see his F2 colleagues Alex Albon and Lando Norris ahead of him all the time, when they joined F1.
Toto Wolff and James Vowles have revealed how Lewis Hamilton reacted when he learned that James would become the new team principal of Williams.
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that a fan ‘kept taking him out’ while he was playing Gran Turismo online, and George Russell joked it was him.
