168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell could pocket around $30m per season in his next Mercedes F1 contract.

The Briton is reportꩲedly inching closer to securing a fresh two-year extension with Merce💜des including an option for 2028, worth “around $30m per season”, equivalent to around £23m, according to .

Russell’s curreܫnt deal is due to expire at the end of 2025 but he is expected to be rewarded with a bumper new contract following his strong start to the season.

Russell has been leading Mercedes’ charge alongside rookie teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kimi Antonelli and currently sits fourth in the driverཧs’ championshi🌸p after the opening four rounds.

He is just 14 points behind McLaren’s168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris after claiming three podium🌸 finishes, including his impressive drive to P2 in last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

Mercedes focused on George Russell, Kimi Antonelli

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen continues to be linked to Mercedes amid Red Bull🙈’s challenging start to the new campaign but Toto Wolff insisted at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix that the Dutchman is no lo💦nger on his radar.

"We need t🍰o concentrate on our driver line-up,” Wolff said in Melbourne.

"I don't flirt outside if I'm in a good relationship, an𒐪d that is true for this year too. So at the moment that [a move for Verstappen] is not on any radar.

"I don't plan to shift my conce🃏ntration away from these guys and m🌌ake sure that George has some visibility very soon, or has a contract very soon.”

Wolff spent several months publicly courting Verstappen last year as he searched for a replacement for seven-time world champion168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton, who left for Ferrari.

Mercedes eventually decided to promote their teenage prodigy Antonelli afteಞr a single season in Formul📖a 2.

About a new deal for Russell, Wolff added: "We have had a chat a few weeks ago about what the right timing would be to liaise and I'm - naively or not - someone that sticks to what he says and these three [Russell, Antone𓃲lli and reserve driver Valtteri Bottas] are the combination that I want to go forward with Mercedes.

"I have no other reasons to doubt that, on the contrary. And we're going find some time I guess before the summer. We'll do that in a timely manner withoꦍut disrupting the season."