Nice to see Russell in particular gets another year...I think it's all part of Mercedes' master plan: If Hamilton retires after winning title #8, Russell moves to Merc to partner with Bottas and, if Merc still has the dominant car, Bottas will become a WDC that year. Not saying Russell can't beat him eventually but Bottas is usually within +/- 0.2 secs of Hamilton on pure pace and George will have just started and may take a few races to get up to speed whereas Bottas has shown in these last 2 seasons to be very strong during the opening rounds. Bottas obviously has bouts of losing confidence in himself going against Lewis all these years, but with him out of the picture I think he'd be stronger throughout the season.
In reality though, Hamilton will probably want to try the 2022 cars before leaving the sport, so who knows lol
In reality though, Hamilton will probably want to try the 2022 cars before leaving the sport, so who knows lol