“No way” Lewis Hamilton would have left Mercedes amid current form, George Russell claims
George Russell has claimed Lewis Hamilton🍃 wouldn't have left Mercedes with their current F1 form.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell believes there’s “no way” 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton would have quit Mercedes amid their current F1 form.
Hamilton stunned the F1 world with the ann🐈ouncement that he would be leav💜ing Mercedes in order to join rivals Ferrari in 2025 before the start of the current season.
The seven-time world champion’s decision to call time on his decade-plus Mercedes stint followed two challenging campaigns und𝕴er F1’s ⭕new technical regulations.
Mercedes made an underwhelming start to 2024 but have enjoyed an upswing in form of late following an aggressive development push. The team arrive at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix off the back of consecutive victori꧙es in Austria and Britain, where Hamilton ended a 945-day winning drought.
"I don't think he would have left if the team was performing like this. No way he would have left, for sure not," Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate Ru✅ssell told Reuters.
"For 2026 the PU [power unit🎐]'s looking really strong and everything we're doing with the fuels is looking great and there's a lot of optimism for us over the next couple of 🐓years," he continued.
”As tough as these last few years have been, it rea𝓀lly feels like we've got the momentum with us now.”
Speaking about Hamilton’s decision to make a bombshell switch to Ferrari, Russell replied: "💞I think everybody wants change at some point. He's been here 12 years𝕴 now, he's achieved so much with the team. I think for him it's exciting to have that change.
"But of course if the team you're currently with are winning races anﷺd everything is looking super great for the future, you just want to be in the fastest car possible and it doesn't matter what colour that iꦐs.”
Russell praised Mercedes’ t🔯urnaround in competitiveness, saying “it just kind of feels like the🌟 Mercedes of years ago”.
The 26-year-old Briton also credited James Allison, who returned to the position of technical directཧor last🎀 year as part of a major reshuffle.
"It's never one person but just having James taking all the ideas and steering in the right direction and empowering the people to go and 𝔉do it has been great."
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