Told yo, Russell is so strong but until now he got only a Williams...
1st hour with Mercedes and he is already on TOP 1.
Imagine being Bottas right now.
Russel is well known a great driver and in my opinion the most talented on the younger generation. Furthermore, he won esports F1 before the championship began and now, finally , he has a good car that he can prove that he will be a future world champion.
I heard that he run the car with low fuel in order to be lighter so he could learn the car faster but anyway, the kid is a super talent of F1 and Bottas should be aware of that. The fact that he didn't get a seat for next year tells me that somehow Lewis knows that Russel can be a Rosberg from 2016 and steal a championship out of nowhere.
I agree.Russell maybe cannot win the race but I think now based on his free practices performance he can win the Pole Position today as this layout is a very short track for F1 at only 54.4 seconds a lap.In the race I hope he wins too but many things can happen in a race and he simply lack the experience to this.