George Russell teases Mercedes F1 W16 changes: “In the pipeline for a long time”
George Russel🍃l looks ahead to the 2025 F1 season, hinting at major car changes for the Mercedes W16.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell has hinted that Mercedes have made significant changes for their new 2025 F1 car, 🍸claiming “these are things that have been in the pipeline for a ꧂long time”.
While Mercedes won four races in 2024, they finished a distant P4 in the🔯 F1 constructors’ championship.
Mercedes have been plagued with inconsistency sin🔯ce the 🐼start of the ground-effect era.
With the rules remaining🌳 stable over the winter, the battle at the front is expected to be tighter than ever before.
Meꦬrcedes will be hopeful that after three seasons of learning, they can finally mount a title challenge.
Speaki🦩ng at Mercedes’ launch of their new partnership with Adidas, Russell expressed his optimism ahead of the new season.
“There have been a lot of.. I wouldn’t say changes directly from last year to this year, these are things that have been in the𒁏 pipeline for a long time, items that we couldn’t quite put on the car in 2024 but we’ve been working on them for a long time,” Russell told Sky Sports.
“We’re optimistic it will be a go𓆏od step in the right direction. You obviously never know what your rivals are going to have done.
“Throug𒅌hout this year, with the thought of 2026, whether people keep developing or not is going to be qui🍨te intriguing.”
Russell ready for F1 title pursuit
George Russell will be the team leader in 2025 following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s exit.
As a result, if Mercedes give him the too꧟ls to challenge, Russell expects to be a serious title contender.
2024 was a breakthrough year for R🧸ussell as he dismantled Hamilton, particularly in qualifying.
Russell showed he wasn’t afraid to go up against 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen with a war of words between the p🎃air at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Gr𝓀and Prix.
Assessing if he’s ready to challenge for the title in𓂃 2025, Russell added: “Absolutely. I feel ready, everybody in the team is so motivated.
“Iꩵ feel that these years have sort of been trial and error, but every time we’ve had a chance to win, we’ve won.
“And that’s wha𒈔t gives me the optimism that 🦋if we do have the car, we can achieve it.
“We’re working asꦗ hard as we c🍸an for it to be this year, but everybody is fully on board and it’s going to be an exciting season.”

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