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George Russell makes daring ‘5 laps’ assertion on F1 title possibilities in 2025
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George Russell makes daring ‘5 laps’ assertion on F1 title possibilities in 2025

By Miles Cooper February 18, 2025
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insists he’ll know “inside 5 laps” of testing whether or not he can win the F1 world championship this 12 months.

The driver, who’s coming into his fourth 12 months with the workforce however first with out as a teammate, completed sixth in final 12 months’s standings however did win two races, in Austria and Las Vegas.

Italian teenager joins Russell within the storage this 12 months however having joined the once-great Silver Arrows simply after their interval of domination resulted in 2021, the 27-year-old is hoping for a automobile able to difficult McLaren, Ferrari and Purple Bull on the entrance this 12 months.

“I believe inside 5 laps you realize whether or not you’re in for a superb season or not,” Russell stated, chatting with the media forward of the 75 Dwell at The O2 Enviornment in London on Tuesday night time.

“We’ve recognized inside the first 5 laps of the final couple of years that we wouldn’t be preventing for the championship. It’s been rather more strong this season.

“All of the groups are so aggressive now. All people is aware of the constraints that they’ve had these final three years, if we deliver the efficiency we count on it needs to be a superb step ahead.

“However we’ve seen with many different groups, they’ve introduced upgrades and it doesn’t work. There are by no means ensures. As a workforce, we had such a lull all through 2023 not profitable a race. We had an enormous restructure change with James Allison coming again and we’re now pushing on the helm of the brand new method.

“2026 is an enormous one however I’m optimistic we are able to have a good season.”

Russell was embroiled in a with four-time world champion Max Verstappen on the finish of final 12 months in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, however the British racer seemed to decrease the temperature heading into the brand new marketing campaign.

George Russell makes daring ‘5 laps’ assertion on F1 title possibilities in 2025

In Qatar, Russell stated Verstappen vowed to place him “on his f****** head within the wall” – calling the driver a “bully” and including that his feedback have been “unacceptable”.

On Tuesday, Russell stated: “No considerations about his driving or something.

“That occurred final 12 months… I need to concentrate on myself. Clearly I felt issues received out of line on the finish of final 12 months, I made it fairly clear I’m not going to take it.

“However now it’s 2025 and I’m targeted on the job and the job is to win, I’m not going to vary my method preventing him or some other drivers, the objective is to win.

“We’ll see once we get to Melbourne.”

The 2025 season begins in Australia on 16 March.

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