The Story of Russell's Heartbreaking Mercedes Debut | F1 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix The Comedy Review
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- Its time for another classic-ish Comedy Review! This time we're returning to the Bahrian desert to go over the 2020 running of the Sakhir Grand Prix. With drama the weekend before, and even more in the run up to the race, all eyes were on George Russell, who made the one off swap from Williams to Mercedes replacnig an ill Lewis Hamilton, to see if he could snatch a debut victory for the Silver Arrows... It was all looking good... until it wasn't...
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That's probably the fastest Mercedes car Russell will ever drive in his career with them
It's such a shame that he was left in Williams for another year after so convincingly outdriving Bottas, then when they finally made the switch it was to an awful car
@@Septimus_ii George Russell moment
@@Septimus_ii Bearman wont wait around at Haas for Hamilton. That mistake wont happen again
@@mvd4436stop hyping up a guy that finished p7 with second fastest car 😂😂😂😂so funny
Bearman needs to beat his teammate at haas first…
@@sadikurrahman4833That he had never driven until FP3. Stop pretending you have a brain, you clearly don't.
Alternative title: the beginning of Bottas adventures in 5000 yearlong pitstops
I thought they started a year earlier in Germany 2019
@@randomrexy2135 how long was that one again
@@randomrexy2135 I believe that was Hamilton
@@RikiJasminyou're correct
I lost money on that race. Latifi lasted longer then I bet he would.
😂😂😂
The best race I've watched so far. Russell didn't win but my god did he prove what he needed to prove. Checo going from last to first whilst still not having a seat for the next year with that pass on Albon which felt like foreshadowing. Ocon and Stroll podiums and Aitken and Fittipaldi debut made it just that bit more exiting.
Korea 2010 would be a beauty. Adrian Sutil tried killing half the field that race and Jenson Button lowkey had one of the worst races of his career.
Everyone except Alonso had a mare from what I recall, was a crazy race
@@maxm3757 Hamilton had a good race, went from 4th to 2nd.
Where Mercedes did their best Ferrari impression.
As a russel fan since 2019, i still havent forgiven mercedes for this
In a way Aitken secured himself not being on the grid in 2021… His crash initiating the flurry of events that lead to the Mercedes pit stop nightmare, ultimately taking Russell’s shot at the win away, who knows if that would have been enough for Toto to pull the trigger early and give him the seat for 2021? That in turn would have meant Aitken would be in the running for Russell’s now vacant seat.
If I remember right Mercedes and Williams already had their contracts for 21 sorted by that point, it would have cost several million to break those contracts and for no real point as Hamilton was still very much the lead driver, Mercedes could afford to wait.
@@andrewcarter9649
Toto wanted George for 2021. Claire Williams blocked it to make selling her dad's team more attractive.
Germany 2019 is a must, lots of opportunities for jokes, also the race was entertaining and exciting itself.
As a Russell fan since his F2 debut, this race was heartbreaking for me but it is still my favourite GP so far.
At the time, Russell didn't even score a SINGLE point but he was still considered to be a rising star. I would watch his on-board every GP with Williams and it was fascinating to see his skills in defence, car control, consistancy and precision over racing lines. When Hamilton had covid, everybody thought Vandoorne would drive, instead George raced with undersized shoes, but also look at his position in the car seat! The dude's so tall that his helmet was almost above the halo.
The quali was so close, he almost got pole, I think that was the ONLY time he got beaten by a teammate overall at the time, by +0.053 or something.
Despite all of this, he had a great start, took the lead and never looked back. You could hear him in the team radio broadcast asking for advice on the setup and steering wheel ALL THE TIME, and yet he had an amazing pace.
But after that bad pitstop, he cleared Bottas with one of the most beautiful overtake of the season imo. It was CRAZY to think he had that much confidence in the car to overtake him here, on such a weird sector. He was about to claim the lead again, he was pushing. But that second pitstop was devastating. But, he fought hard once last time and cleared the cars in a small amount of laps and time (what Bottas struggled to do all season long) to finally score his first F1 points.
Yet, even if my favourite driver took a beating on repeat, this race is the only one I rewatch occasionally. That night, I shed a tear on Perez' long awaited win after years of good performances in that team, himself getting robbed of a podium on the previous GP. I was happy to see Ocon score his first podium as a French myself. But Russell proved absolutely everything he had to, on the track.
Thanks for this comedy review!
In retrospect years later, i think it's great to see kvyat and Aitkan book success (again) now that their F1 adventures were over.
Kvyat is now a Lamborghini factory driver and helping out with that new but strikingly beautifull SC63. Aitken meanwhile is good chums with Emil Frey racing and Action Express racing, and is doing very well!
"Genuine puncture" is code for "We can't let people see how dominant the car is. It will demolish the Cult of Lewis that has been built up."
Mercedes: "We'd rather let an individual driver take credit rather than our entire hard-working team"
And why? To shut up people on social media? Just doesn't seem plausible to me.
I would like to see that track-layout back in f1 again
Any top driver would have won with that car. It was a beast. Hamilton had the beast of the bunch. Like max has it now.
Red Bull got very close by the end of the year, you could see they were gearing up for a title challenge in 21.
Idk if you have done this, but 2020 Monza with Pierre Gasly’s Win
Name a current grid driver hotter than Grosjean, Ill wait>>>
Damn…
@FP1Will
Even will is impressed, that must have been a flaming joke.
Jos Verstappen🗿
Name one colder than kimi
Lewis Hamilton and his front brakes at the 2021 Azerbaijan GP.
I think I remember how the Racing Point team tweeted as Russell was catching up on Checo to "stop the count". That was hilarious.
Sounds interesting. Context please.
That was terrific! You handled an old race with insights and humor. We loved it! 👏🏼
Let’s be real Russell would’ve had that 2021 Merc seat if Claire Williams hadn’t tied Russell down for 21 before she sold the team. The 21 championship could’ve been even better without Bottas as Hamilton’s rear gunner…
The fake pitstop theory says, that it wasnt to make Bottas look good, but rather to make Hamilton look good.
Russel jumped in a car he had never driven before ,wearing shoes that were too small, and still managed to emulate a Hamilton like performance.
This would obviously have put Hamiltons reputation in the mud, as a driver who was yet to score a point after two years, simply replicated what "The GOAT" did every race.
Merc already had both titles wrapped up, so taking Russel out, wouldnt have cost them anything.
This could also be the reason why Hamilton was ssoooooooooooo desparate, to comeback in Abu-Dhabi, despite clearly not having recovered, and struggeled his way to 3rd, getting beaten by both Max and Porridge Man, showing that his return was indeed rushed.
I mean, after Sakhir, where Osama Bin Russel easily did what he can, surely he wouldnt have wanted Russel to show what he can actually do and return half ill just to block Russel from doing it.
This is a rundown of the conspiracy theory.
The theory is fugging airtight, honestly.
100%. Russell would have won both races with ease. He even won a race in the zero pod
honestly this makes a lot of sense
Interesting, but it's nothing more than pure speculation, with very little evidence if not 0 evidence to go by.
Thanks you!!
1:23 was absolutely savage. I spilled my drink laughing 🤣🤣🤣
I always thought they had to botch his pit stop because it would be to crazy for a "almost rookie" getting into the most dominant car and immediately get a pole position and a win. That would discredit Lewis' achievments - showing everyone could do it if they drove that car
In my mind, it definitely didn't help, regardless of not actually winning. It seriously made it look like it was 99% the car and only 1% Hamilton. Then having Russell come in and beat Hamilton the next year...
Schumacher had the right idea, never let your teammate beat you by getting shit teammates haha. That's always the theory about why he left as soon as Raikonnen was coming to Ferrari. And amusingly enough why noone rates Kimi much as an elite driver, after being absolutely flogged by Vettel and Alonso
That didn’t help at all, especially because Russell beat Hamilton in 2022…
Comedy review of Barrichellos first win at Hockenheim, now that was a race that had everything.
Or Nurburgring 99.
Would love to see your take on these two absolute bangers
You're the best at these race recaps
Another thing of note, which makes Bottas's performance look even worse is his excuse of old, hard tyres.
Those tyres were the "reason" why he was struggling in the pack, yet Perez was gapping that same pack by over 10 seconds on even older hard tyres.
"To make Bottas look good"? My sweet summer child, can you imagine the press and social media discourse if Russell had won? I'm very much of the tin-foil persuasion when it comes to this. Hamilton had the team built around him at the time and wanted it to stay that way, particularly with keeping Bottas as his "best ever" teammate. He didn't want Russell to win. Lewis may have been ill, but he hadn't lost the ability to make phone calls.
😂😂😂😂..... I love how Lewis always sings that Bottas his best teammates because that guy didn't put up a fight against him.
Whatever helps you not to cry and sleep at night mate
@@skunkkang5713love how this vid isn’t about Lewis but a crystappen fangirl like you still cries about him😂😂😂😂😂😂
Man the conspiring and CRYING from crystappen fangirls 🤣🤣🤣🤣still you cry 😂😂😂
@@AZBCDEE no micky no, We smile since 2021. Hope next year u don't get PTSD from We're checking😁
Goatifi definitely helped Russell look good enough to be noticed by other teams. Bless him.
This was my first live F1 race. What a show.
European GP of 2007 at the Nurburgring would be a great video, plenty of events to cover from that race
2020 Turkish GP, 2000 & 2019 German GP, 2005 Japanese GP, 2019 German GP, 2012 & 2008 Brazilian GPs
sadly, the last Time GR drove a decent Merc!
Just for shits and giggles, Indianapolis 2005
Me when Lance Stroll gets a podium but he still managed to bottle the race by never being able to pass Ocon despite being on softer tyres
Suggestions: spa 2021 (the non race), Germany 2000 (Barrichello's masterclass) and Donington Park 1993 (with the fastest lap done by crossing the pit lane).
A 2010 Canadian GP (or was it 2012, idk whichever one Button pulled off his masterclass) would make for a crazy comedy review
He unironically gave Checo a RBR seat just by having a puncture.
Germany 2019 would be fun to cover, probably one of my favourite races, I have ever seen
Suzuka 98 because entertaining from start to finish, and come on, 90s Sauber were some of the best looking cars on the grid year in year out. In a year that had some of the best looking cars, Sauber's green and blue somehow stood out a lot
I’d be up for this version of Bahrain being used again in f1
Monza 2020 would be a good race to cover if you haven’t already.
I would have covered it in my 2020 comedy review (the very first one I might add!) but could well be worth a dedicated video
I'm glad he didn't win this race. I think it meant his win in 2022 meant more. Coming in to that dominant of a car and winning, I do not think would have been as impressive.
The conspiracy behind this is insane 💀
My body is ready
Great muff!!!....I mean stuff 👍👍👏
This is why I think George is so underrated (I’m gonna be bias here because I support him but I don’t care). On his day he has proven he is one of the if not the best driver on the grid like in Sakhir but he had one bad season last year and now he’s being slandered brutally like I can understand a joke but some people just absolutely hate him and think he’s terrible like May I remind you he beat Lewis in 2022 and is beating him at the minute this year AND qualified p2 in a Willaim’s in 2021 AND did what he did in Sakhir, if thats not telling something I don’t know what is 😅. Lovely video as always mate 🫡
Russell was still fast last year. He just made several critical errors that cost him several dozen points.
His crash in Australia this year was because Alonso brake-checked him. Sometimes I forget how conniving Alonso is, then he reminds me.
Even though he didn't win, Russell's debut proved how easy it was to win with the fastest car.. and how overrated Hamilton is... and especially how weak Bottas is as a driver..
If you give about 12-15 out of the 20 current drivers on the grid the fastest car+weak teammate combo, they will win the championship.
Bro shut up he beated Fernando has 0 brain cells white supremacist he had the best f1 drivers as teamates he beated them
And bottas was a decent driver 99x better than u
@@user-mp1my5ot1yA pro driver better than a random person online? Wow, who would have thought.
why does Hamilton live rent free?
@@daveruda Lemme guess, if I mention Abu Dhabi 2021, you'll piss tears of blood...
you should cover the 2020 British Grand Prix
I missed the premier because my phone decided to not notify me :/
Pain…
I think you should do a Mugello 2020 comedy review, Canada 2011, Brazil 2016 if you haven’t already
Racing Point was probably the most exciting team after RB for such a long time.
the cars with the 13" wheels looked so sexy
When i see george russel cry it makes me feel like a million bucks
Need to do a review of Germany 2019 and Spa 21
Done both!
George gets the most out of a much worse car these days. Clearly one of the more skilled drivers our there, although from time to time is a bonehead. He does outdrive Lewis more often than not now
Hi, i desperately need the name of the song at the end, can't find it anywhere. Please someone tell me if possible.
You should do a 2020 FerrariWatch in the summer break 😂
Honestly still not emotionally over it
Ah yes, the race that Red Bull used as an excuse to hire Perez only to pair him up with a teammate that's made him spiral into a fit of confusion as he tries to adapt to verstappen's Futuristic driving style.
Perez is actually looking better this season, now that he seems to have accepted that he will never challenge Max for a title.
1985 San Marino GP where anyone and their mum ran out of gas.
If you can did up the footage, how about reviewing the 1996 Monaco GP? That race plenty of material for you to make jokes that will get you cancelled.
Do the Danny Ric & Lando 1-2 with Mclaren
So weird I view George exactly the same as I did this weekend. Seems to have it, let’s get the kid some experience and see what he does. What’s this 4 years later and I’m thinking that still? 😂 Seens these kinds of careers before.
How about doing Spa '95?
I was rooting for him
Aitken and Fittipaldi's stint were a joke compared to Bearman, Lawson and (in 2022) de Vries's stints
Ummm
I think K Mag was the one doing the avoiding, not Vettle
Ah, that race where Mercedes pulled a Ferrari
Ok, so this WASN'T the race where George and Bottas collided and got into slappy cuffs? Wasn't that the same season? That might make a good part 2 for this video eventually.
the 1994 indy 500
Would you review classic and old IndyCar races?
"Porridge Man"
Comedy is all about timing...
Russell was sabotaged because he was performing better than Hamilton would have. This was the beginning of Hamilton’s downfall.
🤣🤣🤣🤣cry more lando nowins fangirl😂😂😂
Yeah we saw sure Russell performing better last season
Russell can’t even beat a washed Hamilton 😂😂😂😂what a clown😂😂
Russell’s not better than Hamilton but one things for sure
BOTH are leagues ahead of your lando nowins 😂😂😂😂
@@AZBCDEE When was the last time Hamilton won a race?
What's good Will?
I got a suggestion, 2016 Monaco
Pain…
9:05 why is this a rule? I'm still confused till this day.
Robbed , the best pit crew in the world doesn't make wrong tyre choice mistakes such as these . Toto couldn't show how bad Bottas was as Lulus co- pilot or how overrated Hamilton was being gifted 4XWc
9:48
Crystappen fangirl moment 😂😂😂😂😂cry more😂😂😂😂
‘Gifted 4’ 😂😂😂😂let’s not talk about your fraudulent idol
Crymacher got owned by Rosberg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂3-0 hahahaa
Austria 1987. Or perhaps you already visited that one.
I really think Merc should've replaced a bottas after this race. We would've had a 3 way title fight in 2021 between George, Lewis and Max!
Where Danny Ric can onmy ever be a number2 regardless of car or teammate, Russell is bad luck, has it and gives it to others.
as a perez fan I wish you would have talked more about him, but I get that the video is trying to focus on russell so it's not that big of a deal
Bottas holds the fastest qualifying in an F1 race because of this track.
That stat earned him his mullet.
It wasn't to make Bottas look good, it was so Russell didn't expose the fact that Hamilton isn't that good of a driver and that it was all the cars doing. . . So yea they were never going to let Russel win
Crystappen fan detected opinion rejected
I think it was engineered for him not to win. Think about it - it would have been a terrible reflection on the sport, confirming what we already know, that any of the grid could win a race as long as they were driving the best car. The sport has entered peak boring - the fact is, the man who will become 4x champion this year wouldn't be able to do it in an Aston Martin. Alonso would win the world championship this year in a Red Bull. It's absolutely ludicrous.
Crylonso couldn’t even beat Ocon 😂😂😂😂
Put half of the grid in the Aston Martin last season and they would’ve stuck it on pole in Monaco
Truth is crylonso bottled it in the last sector like he ALWAYS does and was rubbish with the second fastest car 😂😂😂
Crylonso got beaten by a rookie and washed button
There’ll be lots of excuses but he still got beaten and that’s unacceptable
US GP 2007 was such a moment 😂😂😂seeing him cry out to the team and go all the way across the main straight to the pit wall to cry 😂😂😂❤❤❤
The most thinly veiled sabotage job by Mercedes
That race taught me 1 thing, bottas is mid at best.
Heartbreaking, truly Heartbreaking. Poor George, Heartbreaking, truly Heartbreaking. 😂 😂
Abu dhabi 2021
well bahrain 2019 for charles was not different
And Bottas still managed to beat him... ouch
Do the 1993 European gp
How about Monza 2020 (Gaslys win)
How about Spa 1998
Covered that a few years ago
@@FP1Will wasnt sure about it if you did or didnt.. :P
Russel was sabotaged.
sabotaged why? he was the future of the team anyways.
@@adrianzanoli
Because Russell stepping into that car and immediately winning massively discredits everything Lewis "achieved" since Rosberg retired.
They tried to sabotage him the first time with the tyres, and it wasn't enough. So they made up a puncture as well.
This is a non-story there is no tragedy involved @MercedesAMGF1 was not going to let George Russell show up Louis Hamilton in his own car. These mistakes were intentional to ensure he didn't win the race because if Louis was in the car, these things wouldn't have happened.
In my mind, it became clear after that when a rookie could step into the car that it was a lot more of the car than the driver
/240426
If only George knew it would be his only opportunity to win a grand prix in his career with Mercedes and not just a piss pot sprint race
Sir Cryalot
Comedy Re-Review
Canada 2012
do canada 2008