Mercedes back to the future

A dazzling Russell, a gleaming Hamilton and a gleaming W13 lit up the Montmeló sky. It's not yet the expected influence, but the main thing is that the Star firm shines again.

Published on 23/05/2022 à 13:00

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George Russell made the Mercedes star shine under the Catalan sun © Photo DPPI

It’s a “three-star” Grand Prix that the team offered itself Mercedes in Catalonia, accompanied by a finally sparkling W13 vintage! But what happened in Spain so that we could for a moment think that we were back in 2021 or the years before? By what mystery has space-time become so distorted to give us the illusion of a return to those times when the constellation F1 gravitated around the star Mercedes? If the double of Red Bull had not brought us back to the reality of the moment, the mirage would have been perfect.

This Sunday, even more than in Bahrain in 2020 (where he replaced Hamilton positif à la Covid), George Russell a montré