168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell has defended Lewis Hamilton after David Coulthard suggested that the seven-ಌtime🅺 world champion was already focusing on Ferrari.

Hamilton’s 12-year tenure with Mercedes will come to an e♋nd in December as he joins Ferrari for 2025.

The decision to join Ferrari seems to have ♋been the right one given the two teams’ contrasting fortunes in the opening three rounds.

Ferrari stormed to a 1-2 finish in the Australian Grand Prix, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz taking the victory.

𒉰On the other hand, Mercedes suffered a double DNF, making it their worst start to a season in well oജver a decade.

Hamilt🐻on has been generally out-performed by Russell, losing out in all three qualify✨ing sessions.

As a result, Coulthard criticise🐲d Hamilton: "He's just not been settled with this car and you can tell, you know, George is just honing the lap time right now and you can feel that Lewis is on the back foot.

"What we do know though, if he does find a window of performance, then you know he will deliver. But right now, it's looking like his decision to head 𝔉off t𝔉o Ferrari, mentally, he is already there."

However, Russell has defended his current🐈 teammate, insisting “nothing has changed” despite the Ferrari news.

"I thi💫nk since Lewis' news, I think Lewis has been incredibly professional with the team and the working relationship with everybody within Mercedes is like nothing has changed whatsoever,” Rus🌸sell said.

"And the team have been so great. They've given us both equal opportunitie🐼s. It's always been that from the outset. And whenever upgrades are bringing [sic] to the car, it's going to both of us at the same time, whereas other teams they go one before the other.

"And that’s always the way at Mercedes. They want to give both drivers the best chance of achieving the best results and then going into next year, no matter who my team-mate is going to be, that wꦍill still continue to be the same."