If all was fair and square in the ladder to Formula 1, it is sure that George Russell would be driving a Mercedes this season after his stellar performance at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix. But cruelly life is not fair and Russell finds himself toiling at the tale end of the field, where he does not belong while Mercedes continue to rule the roost with a safe and trusted pair of hands in Valtteri Bottas doing the wingman thing to perfection, inadvertently or not, for Lewis Hamilton to gobble up the records. Given a few hours in a car he was unfamiliar with, Russell was stellar, making Bottas look ordinary and then he niught have won the race had Mercedes not so inexplicably fluffed their...
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