George Russell hopes the three years of struggles he had racing for the Williams F1 Team will help him when he makes the jump up to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team in 2022.
Russell made his Formula 1 debut with Williams in 2019 but failed to score points with them in the first two seasons, with the Hungarian Grand Prix of 2021 the first time he broke into the top ten with the Grove-based squad.
He had scored points in a one-off appearance for Mercedes in the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton fell ill, but it was midway through 2021 where he finally found the magic touch to get inside the points, which he ultimately did on four occasions last year.
However, Russell hopes the struggles he had with Williams will put him in a good place when he makes his full-time move to Mercedes in 2022 as Hamilton’s newest team-mate.
“I think I’m pretty grateful for the difficulties that I’ve faced on the track throughout these years because quite often when you get in a faster car and a car that is more complete, things just naturally feel easier,” Russell is quoted as saying by GPFans.