Nicholas Latifi: George Russell will be a good benchmark at Williams
Nicholas Latifi believes Williams teammate George Russell will provide 🌠him with a “good benchmark and reference” during his rookie Formula 1 campaign.
Latifi finished runner-up in the 2019 Formula 2 championship and will graduat🔯e🗹 to Williams as Robert Kubica’s replacement to partner Russell for the upcoming 2020 season.
The pair competed against each other in F2 du𒁃ring Russell’s titl🦩e-winning campaign in 2018 and Latifi said he is excited to rekindle their rivalry.
“I’m♌ going to try to do my own thing, I’m my own person and own driver,” Latifi said.
Nicholas Latifi believes Williams teammate George Russell will provide him🐟 with a “good benchmark and reference” during his rookie Formula 1 campaign.
Latifi finished runner-up in the 2019 Formula 2 championship and will graduate to Willia🐟ms as Robert Kubica’s replace🅰ment to partner Russell for the upcoming 2020 season.
The pair competed against each other in ▨F2 during Russell’s titl🉐e-winning campaign in 2018 and Latifi said he is excited to rekindle their rivalry.
“I’m going to 𒁏try to do my own thing, I’m my own person and own driver,” Lati𝓡fi said.
“Obviously George is one of the highest-rated junior drivers - I’m very much looking forward to going ꦉup against him.
“For sure he’ll be a good benchmark and good ref🌌erence to me, helping me to learn.
“He’s not going to be a rookie next year anymore, so I assume he’ll have some advantage, but I think we’re going 🔯to work very well together.
“Where the results are and performan♍ce is going to be, it’s obviously very difficult to say, but regardless my goal is still going to꧑ be to try and extract the maximum out of the package that I can.”
Deputy Williams team principal Claire Wi🐽lliams is convinced her side has the d☂rivers it needs to recover from the back of the grid, despite their lack of experience.
“George and Nicholas have the type 🦄of personalties ꩵthat we’re looking for,” Williams explained.
“ꦜThey 𝔍truly understand the importance of playing their role in the development of the team and motivating the team and inspiring the team. I think we’re very lucky that we’ve got two drivers that can do that.
"It’s always the case that with a rookie, which Nicholas will be next year, it’s going to ta🔥ke him a couple oꦫf races to get his head around things, but we know that he’s a quick study, and that he’s going to be there pretty quickly.
“We know that George 🌊has talent, and it hasn’t been any way a detriment to us putting George in as a rookie this year. In fact it’s been prꦦobably one of the best decisions that we’ve made over a handful of years.
“I don’t think it is a distraction in any way thꦬat we have two younger drive☂rs in the car, because we know what they’re both capable of.”
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