George WAS OFFERED a place in an F3 European team after the presentation with Toto. It was Mücke Motorsport based in Berlin (not mentioned here) and he went on a testing with them. But GEORGE REJECTED THEM and OPTED to race for VOLKSWAGEN powered Carlin. He later said in this interview that he felt like he will be able to learn more with VW's British team than Mercedes'. It was spot on because VW finished higher than Mücke ever did (9th highest afaik). He basically took a leap of faith and decided to stay true to his decision.

He later had a test with BMW DTM and placed fastest even amongst professional BMW DTM drivers that BMW immediately offered him a six-figures contract but an ex-BMW employee told Mercedes about George and Mercedes basically came running back while "threatening" and gaslighting a financially vulnerable teenager with remarks like "closing their doors on him" while asking him to drop everything, offering the shittiest gamble ever, and blocking him towards any further contacts with BMW and probably also VW with how he moved from VW to Mercedes' Hitech.

Mind you, the BMW stint is very real and acknowleged by BMW driver, Tom Blomqvist who said that George is faster than the other guys by more than half a second and adapt to the car very fast. George's picture is still in BMW Group's media page btw.

George NEVER BEGGED for Mercedes. He just basically cold emailed Toto just like anyone applying for jobs would. It was in fact Mercedes who CAME TO HIM TWICE and both times are with shitty offers. The second time was even more outrageous.

Me when someone tells me to stop talking about George russell

I KEEP FUCKING WINNING

Arvid and Liam subplot every race:

CAR MALFUNCTIONING LIKE THE WHOLE NAPOLEON ADMINISTRATION

STILL A PODIUM IN THE GREAT BRITANNIA

My GOAT