{"id":184227,"date":"2025-10-02T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:46:07","slug":"ubs-links-young-singapore-racers-with-f1-icon-george-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/184227\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS Links Young Singapore Racers With F1 Icon George Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UBS Links Young Singapore Racers With F1 Icon George Russell<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming Formula One weekend in Singapore, UBS connected young racing talents in the city-state with iconic British driver George Russell.<\/p>\n<p>UBS hosted a roundtable on October 1 between aspiring young racing talents in Singapore and George Russell, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team driver and a global brand ambassador for the Swiss bank, according to a statement. The event occurred ahead of the F1 Singapore Grand Prix weekend scheduled for October 3 to 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abUBS is proud to support and inspire the next generation of racing talent in Singapore by offering them a unique opportunity to meet and engage with George Russell,\u00bb said Young Jin Yee, co-head UBS Global Wealth Management Asia Pacific and country head UBS Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting Next Generation Talent<\/p>\n<p>According to Russell, he first began racing when he was eight years old and joined a junior program run by Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abThe biggest takeaway from the program was how it gave me a chance to perform and fulfil my true potential. That is why I strongly believe in supporting the next generation of racers,\u00bb he added.<\/p>\n<p>UBS has been the partner of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team since 2011 and it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/high-end\/42028-ubs-formula-one-f1-singapore-mercedes-petronas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">renewed the partnership in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UBS Links Young Singapore Racers With F1 Icon George Russell Ahead of the upcoming Formula One weekend in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,835,816,3875,85,37285],"class_list":["post-184227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-one","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-sports","tag-ubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}