The Briton is coming off the back of his first win of the season and now thinks he has proved he is ‘as good as anyone’
Mercedes’ George Russell celebrates winning last Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix – he finished just under 2sec ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.Mercedes’ George Russell celebrates winning last Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix – he finished just under 2sec ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.Briton is coming off the back of his first win of the season and now thinks he has proved he is ‘as good as anyone’
Russell’s victory at the last round in Austria, only the second of his career and Mercedes’ first since he, was as welcome as it was unexpected. The series of upgrades since Monaco in May have put his car in position to challenge McLaren and Ferrari, for podium places behind Red Bull and potentially more.
“My time will come,” he says. “I’ve got a good 17 to 20 years left in me. This is Max’s time. Max’s era. There’s no guarantee that he’s going to be fighting every single year in the future. When Sebastian was winning, nobody would have predicted that. When Lewis was winning, nobody would have predicted that. Who knows what’s going to come next? I’ve just got to make sure I’m ready.
He is, he admits, still learning, still improving and explains he was only 11 when he believed he could make it as a driver but several years later experience and reality made themselves felt.“I was just so naive to the world and confident and maybe arrogant, you can argue,” he says. “I was winning everything that I was racing in at the time. So I thought: ‘I’m just gonna win and be an F1 driver one day.’ I just thought it was as simple as that.
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