Lewis Hamilton’s Cheeky Safety Car Prank Leaves an Embarrassed George Russell Lost in Thought: “Whilst You Weren’t Looking…”

Las Vegas is set to host Formula 1 next year in the penultimate race of the season. The fixture will surely be an exciting affair, given how much F1 is investing into it. Recently, they had a launch party for the circuit where some drivers had fun conversations with fans in the audience. The most hilarious moment came in when Lewis Hamilton teased George Russell on his inability to do doughnuts in the safety car before the event.

Before the talk, drivers did some doughnuts in their F1 cars for the fans. Lewis Hamilton and George Russell did some doughnuts in the safety car as well. Let’s just say Lewis did some doughnuts while George tried his best. Even while doing the doughnuts in his race car, George almost crashed into the barriers.

Lewis Hamilton teases George Russell with a hilarious prank

The fans at the event had a great time witnessing their favorite drivers doing burnouts in their race cars. They also watched them engage in some hilarious conversations on the stage. One of those happened when the host teased George Russell for not being able to do doughnuts in the safety car.

“You know how to do doughnuts in your race car though. Sorry, I had to go there,” said the talk host. George laughingly replied, “I almost crashed in the F1 car.”

This is when Lewis joked, “So George, when we were in the safety car, whilst you weren’t looking, I turned the traction control off. So when you were trying to do the burnouts, you couldn’t do anything. He was like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on with him. Why won’t he break traction?'”

George was actually convinced his teammate did it. “You did that?” This was when Lewis came out clean. “I’m rubbing you, I didn’t really do it.” 

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The crowd was in for another hilarious moment when Red Bull’s Sergio Perez joined the Mercedes duo and Sky Sports’ David Croft was on the stage as well.

George Russell pokes fun at David Croft after the Red Bull-Sky Sports controversy

Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz’s remarks after the US GP on Lewis Hamilton being “robbed” of his 8th world championship last season did not go down too well with Max Verstappen and Co. The team boycotted Sky Sports for the entirety of the Mexican GP, which was later lifted for the upcoming Brazil GP.

But Russell wasn’t going to let the opportunity to make a joke go when Sergio Perez joined him and his teammate on the stage. He asked Sky Sports’ David Croft, “are you allowed to ask Red Bull drivers questions?” 

Crofty replied, “yeah, I’ve got special permission tonight. Don’t start on me.”

David then confirmed with Checo, “are you allowed to answer.” To this, Perez hilariously replied, “they [Red Bull management] are not here.”

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The Las Vegas GP will be a night race on a street circuit. F1 is investing a serious amount of money to build the paddock and other related infrastructure for the race. The fixture will be the 3rd US race in the F1 calendar. It is surely going to be a starry affair.