Who believes that Russell will not be like Bottas when he is racing at Mercedes? I do not know how they can shape him up and how they could let him be the future of the team after Lewis retires by telling him to move over as much as they told Bottas to do that.

I mean we all know that Bottas wasn't really racing, his job was to be near Hamilton and keep other racers slower, that way he would allow Lewis to have a difference enough to win it. He wasn't capable of doing that every race, and when it was obvious that Lewis would lose because of something, Bottas was given the green light as well.

Rarely ever he just went up there and won straight up. So I just feel like Bottas spent a whole career out of being a helper for Hamilton. Russel is young, if you force him to do that, when the time comes for Hamilton to retire, Russell will be still a young racer, and you would now have a racer that knows how to follow, and not lead. So it will be very weird if they tell him to win as much as possible, since that would mean Hamilton will no longer have a second driver to help him, but another racer he has to race against.