Lewis Hamilton says teammate George Russell and himself work "equally hard" together at Mercedes and that he is not the team's leader although he may be perceived as such. As a seven-time F1 world champion and a 103-time Grand Prix winner, Hamilton's outstanding track record logically confers a special status on the Briton, a prominence also supported by the fact that his remarkable credentials in F1 were garnered mostly with Mercedes. Yet the 37-year-old rejects the idea that he is the team's default leader, or that he stands on a higher pedestal at the Brackley squad relative to the younger and less experienced Russell. "I wouldn’t say I’m the leader," Hamilton...
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