Never short of confidence, George Russell revealed after his maiden Formula One win at the Brazilian Grand Prix last week that he felt it had simply been a matter of doing everything right. In his words, he expected himself to “do your thing, get into the groove”. Which is a disarmingly self-possessed description of what was an immense drive at Interlagos.
He made it sound almost effortless but Russell is not at Mercedes, one of F1’s top teams, by accident nor did he clinch that win through anything but a relentless commitment that has marked him out as a potential future world champion.
