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Mercedes endured its first winless season since 2011 this year but managed to claim second place in the Constructors’ Championship as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell battled for supremacy.
George Russell has mentioned that Mercedes is investigating the inconsistent qualifying gaps between himself and Lewis Hamilton during the Formula 1 season. Even though Mercedes experienced their first winless season since 2011, they finished second in the Constructors Championship. Unlike other team-mate pairings, Russell and Hamilton had an equal number of outqualifications against each other (11 times each). However, when one of them outpaced the other, there was often a significant deficit in lap times. Hamilton ended up being 0.017s faster than Russell overall. Russell acknowledged this issue and stated that they are working to understand why there is such variability in their performance.
