George Russell he says neither he nor his teammate Lewis Hamilton "Do not cultivate any resentment" as to who will finish higher on the scale of each race. Hamilton otherwise he took the podium at the opening of the season in Bahrain while Russell finished the race in fourth place.
He was in the next two races Russell more successful than his teammate as he is in Jedi won fifth place (Hamilton was tenth), v Melbourne however, he stepped on the third step of the podium, and his teammate finished the race a place lower.
Because of all the above, it is so Russell overall in second place in the drivers ’championship standings, on which Hamilton is currently fifth. Because you are Mercedes is still strugglingto return to the former level of performance, Russell acknowledges that the drivers are currently more focused on this than on competing on which one will be achieved a better result.
"I don't think these things really mean much in the current situation," he said. je Russell told the media when asked if it was a fact defeated Hamilton in two of the first three races, also boosted his confidence. “Each of the racers wants to finish the race in front of his teammate, but it makes a difference if he fought for fifth or first place. At the moment, our priorities are elsewhere, ” he added Russell.