While on paper, George Russell didn’t enjoy as prosperous a debut F1 season as fellow rookies Alex Albon and Lando Norris, his strong performances in the Williams did not go unnoticed in the paddock. But despite impressing many with his mature performances in 2019, Russell was already targeting improvements for 2020…

Russell wasn’t able to campaign as competitive a car as his fellow Formula 2 graduates in 2019, but did complete a clean sweep in his qualifying battle against team mate Robert Kubica. But while Russell appeared to have the measure of his team mate on Saturdays, he conceded that Kubica – who scored Williams’ only point of the season in Germany – had had an ace up his sleeve come race day…

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“My story of the last half of the season has been that of getting overtaken by Robert on the first lap, not making good enough starts, not being aggressive enough, then having stronger pace and struggling to overtake him before overtaking him at the mid-point of the race,” Russell said.