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Russell has ‘no expectations' for Mercedes race debut

George Russell has stressed that he is heading into Formula 1’s Sakhir Grand Prix “with an open mind” despite securing a front-row start on his Mercedes debut. Full-time Williams driver Russell has replaced Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in the wake of the World Champion testing positive for Covid-19. Russell has been a front-runner throughout the weekend, topping both of Friday’s sessions, and will start from second place, having qualified a mere 0.026s down on Valtteri Bottas. “Lewis dropped me a message on Thursday or Friday night, can’t remember now, just wishing me well and said look after his car which… so far so good,” he said. “Obviously it would be amazing to stand...
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