F1: George Russell impresses – AutoSport



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George Russell has a ‘mission’! The English driver, who replaced Lewis Hamilton this weekend in Bahrain, led the first free practice session at the Sakhir GP. It would be worthy of La Palice to say that he beat Valtteri Bottas in the first confrontation with the same weapons. That is not so, because Bottas has a motoring experience that the young Englishman does not have, not even in dreams.

There are many explanations, Toto Wolff revealed that Bottas damaged the car a bit in the initial phase of training, different free training programs, etc., etc., but there is something that nobody takes away from George Russell: the first time he took the The winning car that is the W11, it was the best of all, it surpassed its highly rated teammate, and it will have begun to show what it is capable of.

Of course this is simply the first free practice, we will see what happens in the next sessions, but for now the ‘movie’ started well for George Russell. Let’s see how it ends. For the story, what remains is that he beat Valtteri Bottas by 0.322s and achieved the best time of the session …



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