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1. George is a development driver — not only for Mercedes F1 but also Mercedes AMG in developing their EV

George has been involved multiple times in Daimler's EV projects as a development driver. The most notable ones were the Mercedes Concept AMG GT XX and Mercedes AMG GT 4 Door Coupe -> these projects involve Formula One Technology in the form of battery pack & thermal management, software, powertrain, axial flux motors, and many more.

Both projects were mega projects led by Michael Schiebe (Chairman and CEO of Mercedes-AMG), Gorden Wagener (Chief Design Officer of Mercedes-Benz Group AG), Oliver Wiech (Chief Engineer for the AMG.EA platform), and Markus Schafer (former Chief Technology Officer of Mercedes Benz Group AG - specifically on the GT XX).

“So George, of course, you know, we are so grateful for all the time that you've spent with us making this just the perfect machine. It's an absolute technological monster and this is also just because of your effort that you put into it. That means a lot. Thank you very much” — Michael Schiebe -> George Russell @ Mercedes AMG GT 4 Door Coupe launch

2. George is the MAIN development driver for Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team's 2026 Regulation

He has BEEN THERE since they worked on the engine development during 2022-2024. He has BEEN THERE during the R&D of the active aero development, which includes simulators, data, statistics, and everything else. He is literally the one man standing from the DRIVERS side.

George is also a Mercedes spokesperson when it comes to the 2026 regulations -> which he def has to have a good understanding of because he gets asked about it a lot and up until this year, whenever there are complicated questions about the regs, he'd be the one from the drivers side dominantly answering.

This is him in 2024 explaining the regs and already becoming a spokesperson.

And this was Anthony Davidson, Mercedes development driver speaking on George (credit to @grbambi63 for finding this)

“Working with George in the simulator at the end of last year was truly impressive. It was essentially the start of the season for Mercedes' powertrain division, as a full 50% of its power comes from the battery. It required a deep understanding of the situation. It was a completely new world, and George was incredibly impressive in the way he brought everyone together and made it clear that he—I think very quickly—had heavily involved in this early on at the end of last year, when the team was still focused on the 2025 championship, but it was trulyastounding how quickly he grasped it all”

Had George Russell not understood shit about the technical side

1) he wouldn't have been Mercedes spokesperson on the regs for years

2) he wouldn't have been trusted to be involved in the development part of a road car by Mercedes AMG and other Mercedes execs

And it WOULD NOT make any sense that he "does not understand" because

He has been the fucking longest and the only man standing from the beginning to the execution. The data they used for the development of everything would have mostly been his because he was there while everyone came and went.

And literally NUMEROUS of engineer and drivers from Jenson to Shov to Mike Elliott to Resta to the engineers at Williams and ART to even the ones at Carlin VW, BMW, and Hitech have all said ONE THING

George is a very adaptable driver who has a very good understanding of the technicalities of a car beyond what ordinary drivers would do.

Not to mention, on a lot of occassion, George did not have to sit on others' car to correctly predict/deduce what had gone wrong despite those cars not even his own team or even use Mercedes engine. A lot of times he'd be the one who grasps it first and through that, he was able to take preemptive or preventive measures or mitigate a bad outcome quickly.

Toto's been married before Susie and has 2 more kids. The only thing we know about this woman is that her name is Stephanie. That's it. Not even a last name, not even a picture. Wolffs created a very nice image of a good family, however some time ago Toto said that he had no idea that his son, Benedict was working in F1 related stuff. They are not close by any standards.

He and Susie have an age gap of 11 years.

He was previously dating Miss Austria 2000, her name is Patricia Kaiser. They've dated around 2008, Patricia was 24, Toto was 36 (12 years - saving your time).

George sleeps at Toto's house. He said it recently after Carmen had a surgery and he's mentioned that Toto lets him sleep at his house in UK sometimes.

It's also not a new thing. George was sleeping at Toto's when Lewis came to break the news that he's going to Ferrari. Toto literally called George over and said "you won't believe what he just told me".

When Susie was having her f1 car test Toto told her "don't be shit".

When Susie is ill Toto doesn't really ask how's she doing, he comes back 6 hours later to ask if anything has changed.

The night before their wedding Toto showed Susie a list of pros and cons that he's made.

Toto lost his dad when he was 15.

Drivers as animals are my summer break therapy🏎️❤️

I’ve never been a fan but I’ve also never been a hater but to me this just stinks. I’m not even a George Russell fan. But you’d HAVE to be stupid not to read this as him threatening George. We all know Kimi Antonelli isn’t going to have a fierce rivalry with anybody I dare say nothing about him exactly reads fierce.

It all but screams admittance of favoritism, and if George does anything about it or says anything or seems unhappy or fights Kimi too fiercely on track or frankly even breathes wrong he’s getting dropped.

I know I’m batting at a hornets nest when I say this so please heed my tags. I don’t care enough about this to not use the block button liberally if I need to. But I’m so over Mercedes, Toto, and Kimi Antonelli. I think they’re probably cheating in a loose sense of the word, and sabotaging their second driver and their constructors chances by pure neglect if nothing else. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ferrari wins the constructors just out of their pure refusal to play the team game at all and I’ll laugh when it happens.

It’s getting so fucking bad that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn there’s money exchanging hands at this point. Genuinely making this sport feel weird and grimy and this is NOT the opinion I had of this team, these drivers, or Toto at the beginning of this year. I’ve TRIED to be optimistic but omfg I can’t do this anymore.

There comes a point where you have to wonder why the team are okay with this type of negative press. The optics are terrible, and yet they persist with the same shitty attitude they’ve had all year.