George Russell will race for the Mercedes AMG team in the 2022 season. It will be the first time, since debuting in F1 in 2019, that he will race for a championship-winning car alongside Lewis Hamilton. But this will not be the first time that he will be behind the wheel in a Mercedes.

Russell deputized for Hamilton in Sakhir Grand Prix 2020 when Hamilton got COVID. He dominated the race and led for most of it, but finished the race in P9 after a series of unfortunate events; Russell later mentioned he would surely learn from the event and become a better driver.

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I would have loved to have won that race (Sakhir 2020): George Russell

As reported by Crash.net, the young Brit stated that he would have loved to win the race and it would have been a fairytale, but it wasn’t meant to be. Russell also mentioned he wants to become a more complete driver and not be remembered by the events in Sakhir GP.

“I’m grateful that I’ve been in this position on a number of occasions to make me more resilient. I would have loved to have won that race (Sakhir 2020), but that’s not what I want my career to be remembered by,” said Russell.

“I want to be the most complete driver possible and I want to look back in 20 years’ time and say ‘that was an incredibly strong career, every single outcome had a reason behind it and that made me a stronger driver.’

“I believe that race in Bahrain, losing that victory, will make me a stronger driver. In a way, it would have been too much of a fairytale to have won and I probably wouldn’t have appreciated the achievement if that had happened,” said Russell.

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The young Mercedes driver will have many more opportunities in his career to win his first race. He might even get a chance to fight for the world championship in a Mercedes in the 2022 season. But let’s see how he settles into the team for next season.

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