Former Formula One World champion Damon Hill praised Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli as a special talent and backed him for the F1 drivers’ title this year.
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Mercedes has been the most consistent, and he’s got an advantage (40 points), and I think that he’s still on a learning curve. I think that’s going to restore some of his confidence,” the 1996 F1 champion added. So George (Russell) has got a mountain to climb, I think, to rein him in. I’m not saying he can’t do it, but I think from what I’ve seen this guy is something else. He was at a loss for words given the amount of bad luck he had, but he finally got a good victory; a genuine win, he got pole position and so forth. “When a driver is in a team, they can’t consider that they are the primary concern of that team. The problem with being a racing driver in our sport is that you’re not really part of the team. For the time you’re there, you’re part of the team, but you still have to prove yourself against the other guy. So you’re in a constant battle to establish your position”.
Because i think that he’s got the equipment, “I think the favourite is Kimi. Because it was, as he said at one point, he didn’t know what to say, “George having got a win and closed the gap to Kimi, that’s going to be a positive for him and a massive relief.
So we’ll see,” said Hill ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix.
