Toto Wolff declares George Russell is ‘a champion in the making’

Toto Wolff believes George Russell’s maiden pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix is yet another sign that the Briton is a “future World Champion”.

Stepping up to Mercedes this season having done his time, and his learning, with three years at Williams, Russell has impressed many in the paddock.

At a time when Mercedes are struggling to understand their W13, the team lacking downforce and pace due to the porpoising issues, the 24-year-old has out-scored his seven-time World Championship winning team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 158 points to 146.

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He has been the more consistent of the two with 12 top-five results in 13 races, compared to Hamilton’s nine, while in Hungary he bagged the team’s first front row grid slot of the campaign and did so with a pole position.

Mercedes motorsport boss Wolff is all smiles as he is confident that in his new British signing, he has a future champion.

“George is a champion in the making and he was a champion in all the junior categories – in F3, F2, as a rookie,” he said as per GPFans.

“We would have never put him in a Mercedes if we didn’t believe he can be a future World Champion.”

Last season Russell claimed his first podium in Formula 1, P2 at the washed-out