George Russell reached the top category of motorsport at the beginning of 2019 and, although he did so with the Williams team, the young Briton arrived protected and recommended directly by Mercedes, the team for which he will drive from 2022.
Since he set foot in Formula 1, Russell recognized that his great goal was to reach a team that had a single-seater capable of fighting for victories and titles, although in a much more specific way he always referred to Mercedes , a structure to which He has shown great fidelity during his sports career.
After three seasons training as an F1 driver at the Grove team, the Briton was finally able to confirm his transfer to Mercedes last September, a move that has taken place at a somewhat delicate moment due to the fact that the technical regulations of the highest category have taken a 180º turn.
Despite this and taking into account that he will have Lewis Hamilton as his partner, a seven-time world champion driver who arrives in 2022 with more hunger than ever after losing the drivers’ title against Max Verstappen last year, Russell believes that “he is the perfect moment” to make that change of team that he had been chasing for so long.
With the host of changes coming into force in 2022, Russell believes that both veteran drivers and those changing teams will have a hard time adapting ahead of them: “We have to learn to work with the 18-inch tyres, we have to learn all about this new ground effect car and also how the two interact with each other.”
Because of this, the British driver believes that 2022 could be the perfect year to make the big leap to the Mercedes team: “However, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to change teams now. It’s always good to maintain a bit of consistency and balance throughout over the years, but I think this is the best possible year to change teams, because everything is starting from scratch.
After that, the #63 also wanted to be honest and acknowledged that he would have loved to get a seat at Mercedes a year or two earlier, but he is not worried that it was not, in fact, he even assured that it could be something positive.
“Obviously I wanted to get the Mercedes seat as soon as possible, but looking back in time I think this is the perfect time,” concluded George Russell .
