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Mercedes confirm car plans for US GP after unusual Singapore split
Mercedes have confirmed Kimi Antonelli and George Russell will both run their latest-specification car at this weekend's United States Grand Prix.
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63
Championship
2nd
2026 season
Points
238
Wins
3
+3 sprint
Podiums
8
Pole positions
5
Best finish
1st
17 starts
About George Russell
- Born
- 15 Feb 1998 (28)
- Birthplace
- King's Lynn, England
- F1 debut
- 2019
- World titles
- 0
George William Russell is a British racing driver from King's Lynn in Norfolk who won the 2014 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award and then back-to-back titles in GP3 (2017) and Formula 2 (2018) as a Mercedes junior. He made his Formula 1 debut with Williams in 2019 and spent three seasons with the Grove team, earning it a second place in the rain-shortened 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.
Standing in for Lewis Hamilton at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, Russell led much of the race for Mercedes until a pit-stop error and a puncture dropped him to ninth. He joined the team full-time in 2022 and won in São Paulo that year, then added victories in Austria and Las Vegas in 2024 and in Canada and Singapore in 2025, when he finished fourth in the championship.
Junior career: 2017 GP3 champion; 2018 Formula 2 champion
2026 results
| Round | Grand Prix | Grid | Finish | Sprint | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Australian GP | 1 | 1 | 25 | |
| 2 |  Chinese GP | 2 | 2 | 26 | |
| 3 |  Japanese GP | 2 | 4 | 12 | |
| 4 |  Miami GP | 5 | 4 | 17 | |
| 5 |  Canadian GP | 1 | DNF | 8 | |
| 6 |  Monaco GP | 6 | 12 | 0 | |
| 7 |  Barcelona GP | 1 | 2 | 18 | |
| 8 |  Austrian GP | 1 | 1 | 25 | |
| 9 |  British GP | 4 | 2 | 23 | |
| 10 |  Belgian GP | 3 | DNF | 0 | |
| 11 |  Hungarian GP | 6 | 7 | 6 | |
| 12 |  Dutch GP | 2 | 3 | 23 | |
| 13 |  Italian GP | 2 | 2 | 18 | |
| 14 | Spanish GP | 6 | 5 | 10 | |
| 15 |  Azerbaijan GP | 1 | 1 | 25 | |
| 16 |  Bahrain GP in Malaysia | 7 | 20 | 0 | |
| 17 |  Singapore GP | 19 | 9 | 2 |
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