Russ🐷ell out-scored Hamilton by 35 points in his first year with the team, taking Mercedes’ only win and pole position in 2022.

However, the final F1 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:standings didn’t tell ൩the whole picture with experimental setups in the first half year🅷, combined with some misfortune, put Hamilton on the back foot. 

Regardless, the pair were evenly-matched throughout the year, giving Mercedes arguably the best 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 F1 driver line-up.

Tost - who is in charge of Red Bull’s sister team, AlphaTauri - thinks Russell will be the one to take the fight to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc next year.

“The superiority shown by 💛Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing this year is quite rare. I expect a three-way battle between Max, Charles Leclerc and George Russell, who is already stronger than Lewis Hamilton”, Tost said as quoted in .

Change at AlphaTauri

After losing168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Pierre Gasly to Alpine, AlphaTauri have signed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nyck de Vries alongside 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda.

De Vries isn’t a typical rookie given his wealth of motorsport experience, winning the F2 and Formu𝓡la E titles in recent years.

At 27, de Vries is two years older than reigning ൩champion Verstappen.

Tost admitted that AlphaTauri were 🗹impressed by how de Vries performed at the recent end-of-season Abu Dhabi🍷 test.

"Yuki Tsunoda has developed reasonably well, has been able to improve and has been faster than Pierre Gasly in recent qualifying,” he added. “How much he can stillꦏ improve will depend solely on him, but I expect a strong 2023. 

“And Nyck had ꧒a very good test in Abu Dhabi a꧅nd his feedback was very good, we were impressed."