George Russell opens up on a season that slipped away while Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli seized the Formula 1 crown.
George Russell has spoken candidly about the pain of watching his championship hopes fade, admitting the experience has been very difficult to come to terms with.
The Mercedes driver described how his season gradually fell apart, turning what promised to be a serious title push into a campaign of frustration. Things hurt even more because the driver who took the crown was sitting in the other side of his own garage.
Kimi Antonelli, Russell's team-mate, kept his momentum going and carried it all the way to the championship. That leaves Russell in the awkward position of having to respect a rival's success while dealing with his own disappointment, with no other team to blame.
For Russell, the challenge now is to process what went wrong and rebuild. Few drivers on the grid are as sharp or as determined, and how he responds will be one of the big storylines to follow as Mercedes look to keep both their drivers fighting at the front.
