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Wolff on Russell's career: 'Maybe kept at Williams too long'

Toto Wolff acknowledges that George Russell may have stayed at Williams too long. Speaking to Motorsport.com the Mercedes team boss praised his young driver's achievements and looked back at the trajectory it took to get Russell to this point. Article continues under ad Russell became part of Mercedes' training programme in 2017. The following year, he became Formula 2 champion in his first year in that class, which was immediately followed by a promotion to Formula 1. As Mercedes did not have a place at that time, Russell was moved on to customer team Williams. At the time, Williams was in even worse shape than today and in the first two years Russell drove there, the Williams team...
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