Hamilton finished sixth in the 2022 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 standings, his worst-ever result while not winning a single race for the first time, but Mercedes teammatﷺe Russell finished fourth and won a maiden grand prix in Brazil.

Although Hamilton, aged 37, will vie to win an all-time record eighth F1 championship next year by wrestling the title back from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, he may find competition fro⛄m inside the Mercedes garage.

“I 🍷think I’ve got enough experience now that I feel ready to fight for a championship and be able to handle the challenges and difficulties that come with it,” Russell told .

“Obviously the likes of Lewis and Max have more experience in 🍷that scenario. But if you go out and you put it on pole and win every ra𒊎ce you will be world champion. So you have just got to focus on smaller details and it’s in your own hands, almost.”

Russell outperformed Hamilton in the early parts of 2022 as Mercedes battled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising, leading to quest🌠ions about t⛎he seven-time world champion’s ability at that stage.

It has sin𒐪ce e📖merged that each driver ran different experiments in a desperate attempt to shed the W13 of its problems.

Russell did, however, emerge from a de๊but season alongside Hamilton with incredible credit.

“We went through the stats and statistically I fini🌜shed ahead of my teammates, I think 95% of the time, in the five years prior to my year here,” the ex-Williams driver sꦏaid. 

“So I was used to a certain level o🥂f outscoring t꧂hem or whatever you want to call it. 

“But then I had to say: ‘If it’s 55/45 in mꦿy favour, even if I lose 45% of the time, that’s going to still be incredibly successful against Lewis’.

“So psychologically you need to set yourself up for small failures. I’m not going to beat him every single session, every quali, every race, 🌃that’s just absolutel🐟y not going to happen. 

“But ෴having a year like we’ve had this year, I don’t know what the numbers are, but it probably is 55/45, roughly. And that’s an incredibly successful year, and almost equivalent to maybe what the 95/5 was fo꧋r me previously.

“I always believed in myself, but definitely it’s always a mindset. And if you go with the mindset that I’m going to𒉰 beat Lewis Hamilton 95% of the time, you’re going to come away dis🐠appointed.”