Russell would welcome "anyone" team mate

Within the round-up: George Russell says he’s open to any driver becoming a member of him at Mercedes in 2025

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Russell would welcome “anybody” workforce mate

With Lewis Hamilton leaving Mercedes on the finish of this season, George Russell says he’s opening to anybody becoming a member of him subsequent season, together with Mercedes junior F2 driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

“I feel Kimi is a incredible driver,” Russell stated. “Clearly racing in Components 2 this yr, however he’s little doubt going to be a Components 1 driver sooner or later and he’s a fellow junior driver as properly, coming by means of the ranks, as I did with the workforce. So I feel it makes for an ideal alternative for Mercedes constructing into the longer term.

“However as I stated earlier than, I’d welcome anyone as my team-mate. I really feel like I’ve received a fairly good team-mate proper now as it’s. So yeah, I’d welcome anyone.”

Foster takes Indy Nxt pole

Louis Foster secured pole place for as we speak’s Indy Nxt sequence race in Detroit, forward of championship chief Jacob Abel.

Caio Collet secured third on the grid, with Jamie Chadwick qualifying in fourth place.

Slater makes it 4 in Italian F4

Freddie Slater took his fourth straight win within the Italian F4 sequence to additional lengthen his championship lead.

The Prema driver took the opening race of the weekend at Imola from Hiyu Yamakoshi with Aksha Bohra in third. Slater now sits on an ideal rating of 100 factors with victory in ever spherical, 46 factors forward of workforce mate Alex Powell in second, who retired from the race.

YouTuber SuperGT loses Nurburgring license

Simracer Steve Brown – referred to as ‘SuperGT’ on YouTube – was barred from taking part along with his workforce mates on this weekend’s Nurburgring 24 Hours after he was discovered to have pushed too quick underneath a yellow flag zone in qualifying.

Brown was attributable to race alongside fellow simracing persona Jimmy Broadbent, Mikhail Charoudin and Manuel Metzger in a Black Falcon-operated GT4 BMW M4 within the endurance race. Nevertheless, he was recorded travelling at 145km/h in a Code60 zone, the place the utmost pace restrict is 60km/h, throughout the second qualifying session. Because of this, his workforce had been handed a 90-second stop-and-go penalty for the race and Brown’s Nordschleife license was revoked, that means he was barred from taking part on this weekend’s race.

Brown shall be permitted to reapply for his license and, if profitable, shall be allowed to race in future occasions on the circuit.

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