🗣 'At Williams, it was the best schooling he could have had, [but] maybe a year too long' MercedesAMGF1 boss Toto Wolff discusses GeorgeRussell63's breakthrough F1 win. Story:
and gave the team its first victory of the season, snapping a win drought that dated back to last December’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Reflecting on Russell’s rise after his Brazilian Grand Prix victory, Wolff spoke of his first meeting with the British driver when he pitched to join the team’s academy. “He’s the first of our new junior programme that has won a race. Obviously Lewis has been there forever, and is the most successful of the ones that have graduated from our junior academy.“But six years later, [Russell is] a grand prix race winner. We’ve always set hard targets. You’ve got to win GP3, you’ve got to win F2, and he did that in his rookie seasons.“But in any case, today the most relevant [thing] is that he’s a grand prix winner and a deserving grand prix winner.
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