Max Verstappen would have had his Formula 1 career "damaged" by Lewis Hamilton had they been team-mates racing with the same machinery.
That's the view of the seven-time world champion's current partner George Russell. The younger Brit managed to get the better of his much more experienced and decorated team-mate in their first season together, but thinks it could have been much worse had Verstappen been paired with Hamilton instead.
He told Square Mile : "If Max might have gone to a team like Mercedes and had to face a peaking Lewis Hamilton there, that could have damaged his career. So you have to look at it from two sides.
