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Webber: Russell's performance horrible for Hamilton

Nine-time Grand Prix winner Mark Webber believes that George Russell's performance at the Sakhir Grand Prix was damaging for Lewis Hamilton. With the seven-time world champion forced to miss the race after testing positive for COVID-19, his replacement Russell qualified second on the grid and led for much of the Grand Prix. A Mercedes pit stop error and a subsequent slow puncture proved costly and he came home in ninth, but Webber said that the ease with which the young Brit adapted to the W11 would have impacted Hamilton's 'share price'. “The timing for Lewis was was just horrible,” he told the At The Controls podcast. “I drove 1,000 days in a Formula 1 car with testing and practice...
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