Mercedes drivers Hamilton and Russell combined to battle their W13 car’s issues with porpoising and performance throughout a drab 2022, a year in which they were largely helpless to stop 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen winning a second consecutive F1 title.

Hamilton did not win a single race for the first time in his career, while Russell won his first-ever grand prix in Brazil. Russell, in fourth, finished ahead of Hamilton in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings and has been bullish about his own ambitions next ✤year.

Four-time champion Vettel told Sky about Russell’s hopes: "It's so difficult to say. Buꦜt if he gets the right car, the right equipment, the right team - and I think he's in a goo🥃d place - then yeah I think he's got the talent and skill.

"There's more than talent and skill needed but he seems t꧑o be hard-working, so yes he's got a good chance."

Russeꦬll warnღed that he was coming to claim the championship for himself.

“I feel absolutely ready tಌo win a world cha꧒mpionship," he told Sky in Abu Dhabi. "I've felt ready for a couple of years now.

"I think having this season next to Lewis has been huge for me personally to learn some of the little details, how to get more out of my car, more out of my team, and extracting everything out🌌 of the package when itꦫ truly matters.

"And I'm definitely going to have a𒁃 really strong winter. I'm going to work really hard with my team. Every single person at Mercedes' factory is going to be pushing like hell to deliver a car, to give us a chance t♛o go fight next season.

"I guess if you told me that at the start of the year, I would have been extraordinarily happy because if you beat Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes, most of the time th𓆏at means you will be a world champion.

"Obviously, I would take the positives away from the season, but I'm not going to celebrate finౠishing P4 in thꦯe championship.

"I'm going to cel♏ebrate winning the race in Brazil because that was a huge achievement for myself and the whole team. But the fact is, w♚e're all here to win and we're here to win world championships. So we've not done a perfect job this season. We've had a relatively clean and smooth season with the car and package we've had.

"But to the standards this team set, some stan🐻dards I set myself - it's not good enough and we need to go on next year and give it more."