George Russell: Valtteri Bottas comments on Lewis Hamilton point to big Mercedes change | F1 | Sport

“But still now looking at the big picture, there’s so many positive things and so many more lessons learnt about driving and about myself and everything that I can again carry into next year and really turn that into a strength and try again.”

Bottas’ comments when finishing 124 points behind his team-mate are bold and may be cause for concern for Mercedes.

Although they won the constructors’ championship they may want a driver to push Hamilton more and push the team on as well.

In race battles, it was the F1 world champion who regularly came out on top.