Why Russell's Mercedes F1 dream hinges on perfection
This week's Autosport magazine cover asks if George Russell is Mercedes' next F1 star. In an exclusive interview, he explains why he can't afford to put a foot wrong to be considered and why he must keep doing his talking on the track
"It's just getting [to be] a joke at the moment. I've never been so inconsistent in my life. You look at the lap charts and you'd think I'm a bloody rookie or whatever. I felt like I was driving very similar lap after lap and it was like a yo-yo. I felt like an idiot. We need to seriously pull our fingers out."
The most remarkable thing about George Russell's stark words to Williams during a debrief at the 2019 British Grand Prix - immortalised in the ninth episode of the second series of Netflix's Drive to Survive - is that, in Formula 1 terms at least, he was a rookie.
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