{"id":379493,"date":"2025-12-30T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379493\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:45:13","slug":"did-george-russell-fill-the-void-left-by-lewis-hamilton-at-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379493\/","title":{"rendered":"Did George Russell fill the void left by Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell assumed a team leader position at Mercedes this year following the exit of Lewis Hamilton from the Brackley-based squad.<\/p>\n<p>Having joined Mercedes in 2013, Hamilton won six F1 titles with the team en route to becoming the most successful driver in the sport&#8217;s history with more wins, podiums and pole positions than any other driver.<\/p>\n<p>However, he called time on his tenure with Mercedes at the end of the 2024 campaign and opted to join forces with Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old endured a torrid maiden season with the Italian outfit and failed to capture a single podium result all year.<\/p>\n<p>Russell, meanwhile, used his experience in comparison to rookie team-mate Kimi Antonelli to attempt to fill the void left behind by Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>But do you think Russell has been a strong team leader for Mercedes?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have your say below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell assumed a team leader position at Mercedes this year following the exit of Lewis Hamilton from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-379493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379493","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=379493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}