George Russell has knocked Lewis Hamilton off his perch – Eddie Jordan on Mercedes power shift

Former F1 team owner Eddie Jordan believes there has been a power shift at Mercedes and says that George Russell is now “top dog”, not Lewis Hamilton. Russell is the only driver to have finished in the top five of every race so far this season in an impressive first season with the Silver Arrows.

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Former McLaren teammate Fernando Alonso stoked the fire further by claiming it was ‘extremely easy’ to keep the British driver behind him. Russell is now 34 points ahead of Hamilton in the drivers’ standings, and Jordan waxed lyrical about the rookie’s outstanding progress.

“Absolutely. I think the big surprise is, everybody globally, in Formula 1 context, thinks that Lewis Hamilton is top dog,” Jordan said when asked if Russell had done enough to warrant his promotion in quotes published by the Independent.

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