I don't think that will happen, at least certainly not initally. Put Russell and Hamilton in the same car, and Hamilton will win every time. But Russell is still young, and can improve. There's only one person on the grid at the moment who could compete with Hamilton in the same car... Verstappen. But I'd still say Hamilton is ahead on consistency, tyre-management, and big-picture thinking (i.e. back out when needed in order to secure second place, instead of making kamikaze lunges that can result in 0 points). But Lewis and Max are a long way ahead of everyone else. As for best of the rest, who knows? But it would be good to see Alonso in a competitive car again.
@Cnut237 that’s very sad indeed and fans should understand that’s it’s not right to attack anyone this way, and hopefully these are all empty threats because we have seen enough controversy this season and need no more controversy around F1 for now. Also I doubt that Mercedes will allow Russel to overtake Hamilton, and in my personal opinion they’ll favour Hamilton each time so we can definitely rule this out from happening.