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Originally Posted by Artemis
The career of Russell shows that he was/is a super talent. What a driver. Great to see him boldly squeezing everything out of his car. Not star-struck by Hamilton. Made his mark from the get-go at Mercedes, doing a stellar job, showing his colors: new team, new car, quickly adapting and regularly outperforming his legendary team mate Hamilton in 2022. And today he pulled it off again. Yet another performance that may induce Mercedes a "let them race" approach, instead of "Bottas'ing" Russell to favor Hamilton. If Hamilton wants to finish races ahead of Russell, he will need to do what he's paid for (± 10 times the Russell pay): race. The days of "Valtteri, this is James" favors seem to have vanished.
We will never know, but imagine for a moment a 2007 'young' Hamilton (instead of 2023 'old' Hamilton) competing with Russell at Mercedes.
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Certainly the easy wins for HAM with the 'Val slave' days have all but disappeared for him.