{"id":18300,"date":"2021-09-07T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=146999"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:11:19","slug":"british-racer-george-russell-signs-new-long-term-contract-with-mercedes-and-will-partner-lewis-hamilton-from-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/british-racer-george-russell-signs-new-long-term-contract-with-mercedes-and-will-partner-lewis-hamilton-from-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"British racer George Russell signs new long term contract with Mercedes and will partner Lewis Hamilton from 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell, the British racing driver has signed a new long-term contract with the Mercedes-AMG on Tuesday. Not only this, but the British F1 racing driver will also be partnering with Lewis Hamilton from the year 2022. The 2022 season of Formula One will be the 73rd season of the championship. Mercedes has announced officially that George Russell has signed a contract with them on Tuesday and also posted it on the official social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old 2018 FIA Formula 2 champion signed with Mercedes by replacing Finnish racing driver Valtteri Bottas. The winner of nine races between the year 2017 to 2020, Valtteri Bottas announced that he will be joining Alfa Romeo Racing after this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">George Russell is a Mercedes F1 driver from 2022<\/p>\n<p>Facts.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TAvd6KurkQ\">pic.twitter.com\/TAvd6KurkQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1435166031207600129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Because of this announcement of 32-year-old Finnish racer, the Mercedes signed the British George Russell. Russell was signed with Mercedes-AMG Petronas in the year 2017 but not for the main driving program, he joined the side to compete in the Junior Driver program. After returning to Williams in the year 2020 he was qualified for the 18th spot. The 23-year-old British racing driver finished 15th in the 2020 season of Formula One.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeRussell63?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeorgeRussell63<\/a> will race for the Team alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LewisHamilton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LewisHamilton<\/a> from the 2022 F1 season! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pcyOqlSxdi\">pic.twitter.com\/pcyOqlSxdi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1435165962202923011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s official. Next year, I\u2019ll be a Mercedes F1 driver. This is a special day for me and I want to say a huge thank you to Williams Racing, Mercedes-AMG and everyone who has supported me in getting where I am today,\u201d George Russell tweeted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s official. Next year, I\u2019ll be a Mercedes F1 driver. This is a special day for me and I want to say a huge thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamsRacing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WilliamsRacing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MercedesAMGF1<\/a> and everyone who has supported me in getting to where I am today. I couldn\u2019t have done it without every single one of you. \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MmGA1vr9mR\">pic.twitter.com\/MmGA1vr9mR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Russell (@GeorgeRussell63) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeRussell63\/status\/1435166092020813827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British racing driver George Russell signed a new contract with Mercedes-AMG Petronas on Tuesday and he will be a team-mate of Lewis Hamilton from 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":39035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[943,402,2680,931,1617,1614,2504,1611,1615],"class_list":["post-18300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-george-russell","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes-formula-1","tag-mercedesamgf","tag-motor-racing","tag-racing","tag-valtteri-bottas"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}