George Russell had an amazing run of Top-5 finishes before the summer break. Although since then, he has encountered some struggles and had some major incidents too. In the Brazilian GP qualifying at Interlagos, he beached his W13 in the gravel, bringing out the red flag. While he was alright, he broke his headrest during this incident.

Coming down the straight towards Turn 4, Russell locked up his rear tires and couldn’t turn the car into the corner. He went straight on through the gravel to just save himself from hitting the barriers. Despite that, it wasn’t a lucky escape for him. As he tried to rotate his car around 180 degrees and beached it into the gravel.

During this incident, Russell’s headrest in the car was constantly banging against his head before eventually it broke. The banging was due to the W13 bouncing up and down going through the gravel.

The Mercedes man addressed the same saying, “I’ve broken the headrest because my head was banging so much – it was a pretty unpleasant experience.” Such incidents only reflect how fast these F1 cars go on track and how carbon fiber parts can break with hard contact.

Russell continued saying that the car was good, “Oh yeh, there should be no damage, always a bit tentative when it’s been lifted onto the tow truck, and there’s a lot of gravel, so you know the guys are gonna have to take the car to pieces tonight just to make sure we’ve got all the gravel out”

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George is fine after the crash and will start the Saturday Sprint race from P3. Still, his incident gave us an anti-climatic end to qualifying, with Kevin Magnussen taking pole from the garage.

George Russell in the 2022 season so far

After chasing Toto Wolff for years, George Russell finally got his chance at Mercedes in 2022. Coming from the back of the grid after 3 years at Williams, Russell was intent on proving his speed against 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton. And he did just that.

The 24-year-old has consistently finished in the Top-5 in multiple races and achieved 7 podiums for the Brackley outfit. He pulled out a stunning pole position lap at Budapest for the Hungarian GP to get Mercedes their first pole of 2022.

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Yet George has looked out of place in recent races in Singapore, Japan, and the USA. At COTA, he punted poleman Carlos Sainz on the race start going into the hairpin of Turn 1, resulting in a DNF for the Spaniard.

A young man touted as a future world champion should be conscious of avoiding such incidents. As he is getting a bad reputation for the same. What are your thoughts on George Russell?