Hamilton’s latest challenge and Russell’s big opportunity
Two star drivers in one squad can cause fireworks. It’s great for the fans but not necessarily for the teams involved. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren is perhaps the most infamous example, though the Lewis Hamilton-Nico Rosberg era was also painful for Mercedes at times, despite all the success the combination scored. Things don’t have to get nasty, as Niki Lauda and Prost proved at McLaren, but the more successful squads in recent years have tended to employ a pretty clear pecking order. Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello at Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at Red Bull, Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes. Putting George Russell with Hamilton is a risk for Toto Wolff, but it’s one taken knowing that he has to look to the future. Red Bull…
