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With George Russell seemingly adapting to F1’s new era of cars a lot faster than Lewis Hamilton, Anthony Davidson reckons his new team-mate’s pace “definitely raised an eyebrow” from the seven-time World Champion.

Russell has been Mr. Consistency in his first campaign with Mercedes, the Briton running up a tally of ten top-five results in 11 races, nine on the trot to start the season.

Racing out to a 37-point lead after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, pundits talked up Russell and his potential to replace Hamilton as Mercedes’ lead driver.

However, in the last three races it has been Hamilton who has been on a rampage, taking three podium results, the Briton in contention for the victory in two of those races. He has cut his deficit to Russell to 19 points.

Davidson feels Russell’s early season would have been a bit of a concern for Hamilton.

“George is driving a brilliant season so far, only a few hiccups, but that’s what you expect in a first season at a top team,” the former F1 driver told Sky Sports News.

“There’s a lot of pressure there for George and he’s learning from the master, isn’t he? What a privileged position to be in for George.

“I did expect him to have the raw pace straight away. We saw that at Williams, he always shone through, particularly in qualifying. He was labelled Mr