Russell is a british driver, driving for a not so good car (probably second worst car) and the race is on silverstone with nearly all british fans. It was expected that they would cheer for Hamilton, but to cheer for Russell wasn't really a weird situation neither, it is basically a given. However dude finished like 8th or something with the second worst car, by calculation the average expected of him is 17th, why? Because the other car is latifi at 18th and then worst cars 19th mick and 20th mazepin.
Anything above that shows that dude is doing better than expected for the car he is given. However I have to say Williams is a great qualifying car, it is not as good of a race car. I feel like dude will hang tight in silverstone for a few laps at the best but I do not think that he will be racing for too long at those positions, he will once again be lower than points positions.
I very much agree with this statement.
Russell is just magical. The fact that he finished within the top 10 with a less-superior car shows his raw talent and skill on the racing field. I am kinda doubtful as to whether he should stay in Williams or to go to another team with a champion-contender car. I really do think that he'll have an opportunity soon to prove that he can definitely stay at the podium.
I ended up jinxing him lol, he has 3 places grid penalty and will start 12th place if I am not wrong. Williams is a mercedes junior car, and that means Mercedes basically already holds his contract and raised him so much, I doubt that they will let him go that easily.
Bottas and Merc already has a lot of troubles this year, it is looking like they are going to have their differences come out public eventually and in that situation Merc could just hire Russel the moment they want, remember last year? He raced in the Mercedes car and was doing so good as well for a while. Long story short he will move to Mercedes soon and take Bottas' place, it could be either sometime inside the season when everything boils over, or it could be at the end of the season but I do not see Bottas staying for too long which leaves the door open for George to take over.
yeah I'm not seeing Russel finishing in points for Silverstone. i was a bit surprised that they didn't give him a a penalty on the spot a 5 sec penalty would be too much because its not a full race and you don't do pits stops to serve the penalty. i thought since it was in the beginning of the race the FIA tends to be a little forgiving
but today after i found out that they gave him 3 places penalty because that contact made Sainz lose some spots dropping to 18th i believe now he will be back ahead of him in 10th.
bit more then an hour left i got small bet on both Redbull cars finish in points odds at 1.5 Perez will be starting last but he learns from his mistake and will looking to finsih top10.
Edit and by that my bet is went flying,
Verstapppen is out after the contact with Hamilton.
