Former Williams chief Peter Windsor has suggested that Toto Wolff would be better off binning George Russell at Mercedes.
The 25-year-old was snapped up at the start of the 2022 season to replace Valtteri Bottas as Lewis Hamilton’s team-mate.
But Windsor believes that Russell’s apparent reluctance to play second fiddle is working against the seven-time world champion, and Wolff would be better off turning back to Bottas.
Speaking after Russell and Hamilton’s collision in Qatar, he said: “This comes back right back to the choice of George Russell as the other driver in the Mercedes.
“Because in this situation, when you’ve got Lewis Hamilton, who’s never going to be anything other than the seven times world champion, who wants to win a Grand Prix if the car is capable of letting him win it.
“If you’ve got Lewis in that car, you definitely need to have somebody like a Valtteri Bottas or a Sergio Perez in the other car, if you’re going to have them next to one another on the grid.”
