Two former Formula 1 champions are split over whether Lewis Hamilton will be able to get the better of George Russell over the course of the coming season.
Neither of the Mercedes pair were in the title race last year as their car proved inferior to the Red Bull machine which dominated the championship. But still Russell, in his first season with the Silver Arrows, acquitted himself admirably.
Not only did he show remarkable consistency on he way to a fourth-placed finish, but he out-scored Hamilton by 35 points and finished two places above him. Only Nico Rosberg, in 2016, had managed to beat the seven-time world champion before as a Mercedes team-mate.
