George Russell
George Russell is the Mercedes number one in all but title, second in the 2026 Formula 1 World Championship after 13 rounds and 66 points behind his own teammate. He has won twice this season, in Australia and Austria, for seven career grand prix victories, and is contracted to Mercedes through at least 2027. Sources: Formula1.com, ESPN, Sky Sports, RacingNews365.
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Where does George Russell live?
Monaco. Like most of the current Formula 1 grid he is based in the principality, and his partner Carmen Montero Mundt moved there to join him in 2023. He grew up in Norfolk and moved to Milton Keynes at 18 to be closer to his racing team before settling in Monaco. Sources: Wikipedia, F1 Oversteer.
What is George Russell's nationality?
He is British, born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. He races under the British flag and came up through the domestic karting and single-seater ladder before reaching Formula 1. Source: Wikipedia.
How old is George Russell?
Russell was born on 15 February 1998, which makes him 28 in 2026. He is nine years older than his Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli, and he was 21 when he made his Formula 1 debut in 2019. Source: Wikipedia.
How tall is George Russell?
He is reported at 1.85 m, roughly 6 ft 1 in, which puts him among the taller drivers on the grid alongside Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon at about 1.86 m. Height is a genuine complication in F1, since taller drivers carry a weight and packaging penalty inside the cockpit. Sources: GPFans, Formula One History.
How many races has George Russell won?
Seven grand prix victories. His maiden win came at the 2022 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, followed by Austria and Las Vegas in 2024, Canada and Singapore in 2025, and Australia and Austria in 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, Formula1.com.
What team does George Russell drive for?
Mercedes-AMG Petronas, since 2022. He spent his first three F1 seasons at Williams from 2019 to 2021, then replaced Valtteri Bottas alongside Lewis Hamilton. Since 2025 his teammate has been Kimi Antonelli. Source: Wikipedia.
Where is George Russell in the 2026 championship?
Second, 66 points behind Kimi Antonelli after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, round 13 of 23. Russell finished second in that race, having led before Antonelli passed him late. He briefly retook second place in the standings by winning in Austria earlier in the season. Sources: ESPN, RacingNews365, Sky Sports.
Has George Russell ever won the F1 world championship?
No. His best finish is fourth, achieved in 2022 with 308 points and again in 2025 with 319 points and nine podiums. The 2026 season is the closest he has come to a genuine title fight, though the driver in front of him is in the other Mercedes. Source: Wikipedia.
What is George Russell's contract with Mercedes?
He is signed to Mercedes through at least 2027. Reporting on the deal describes a performance clause that triggers an automatic extension if he hits agreed targets, and Russell has said publicly that he can confirm his future. His salary has been reported at around 34 million dollars a year, roughly 30 million pounds. Sources: Sports Illustrated, GPFans, Spotrac.
Who is George Russell's girlfriend?
His partner is Carmen Montero Mundt. They have been together since 2020 and she relocated to Monaco in 2023. She keeps a relatively low public profile and appears at races only occasionally. Source: Wikipedia.
What titles did George Russell win before F1?
A strong junior record: back-to-back European karting championships in 2011 and 2012, the BRDC Formula 4 title in 2014, the GP3 championship in 2017 and the FIA Formula 2 championship in 2018. He won both GP3 and F2 at the first attempt. Source: Wikipedia.
When did George Russell make his F1 debut?
At the 2019 Australian Grand Prix, driving for Williams. He spent three seasons there in an uncompetitive car, scoring 16 points in total, and took his first podium at the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, the race abandoned after two laps behind the safety car. Source: Wikipedia.
Is George Russell better than Kimi Antonelli?
It depends which season you look at, which is the honest answer. Russell comprehensively outscored Antonelli in 2025, the Italian's rookie year. In 2026 the picture reversed: Antonelli leads the championship with seven wins to Russell's two and a 66 point cushion after Monza. Russell remains the more experienced operator on Sundays, Antonelli the faster one this year. Sources: Wikipedia, ESPN.
How much does George Russell earn?
Reported figures put his 2026 base salary at about 34 million dollars, around 30 million pounds a year, following a raise tied to his most recent Mercedes deal. Teams do not confirm driver salaries, so treat any precise number as a well sourced estimate rather than an official figure. Sources: Spotrac, Wikipedia.
What is George Russell's car number?
63, the number he has carried since his Formula 1 debut with Williams in 2019 and kept through his move to Mercedes. Source: Formula1.com.
Who did George Russell replace at Mercedes?
Valtteri Bottas, who moved to Alfa Romeo for 2022. Russell had been a Mercedes junior throughout his Williams years, and his 2020 stand-in drive at Sakhir, where he substituted for Lewis Hamilton and came within a botched pit stop and a puncture of winning, made the eventual promotion look inevitable. Source: Wikipedia.
George William Russell was born on 15 February 1998 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. His junior career was funded in part by his father Steve, who sold the family seed business in 2012 to keep the karting programme going, and it paid off quickly: back-to-back European karting titles, then the BRDC Formula 4 crown in 2014, GP3 in 2017 and Formula 2 in 2018, the last two at the first attempt.
Williams gave him his Formula 1 debut at the 2019 Australian Grand Prix. Three seasons there produced 16 points and a reputation built almost entirely on qualifying laps in cars that had no business being where he put them. The one that changed everything was not even for Williams: standing in for a Covid-positive Lewis Hamilton at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, Russell led comfortably for Mercedes before a pit stop error and a late puncture took the win away.
He joined Mercedes properly in 2022, took his maiden victory that November in Sao Paulo, and finished fourth in the championship. Wins in Austria and Las Vegas followed in 2024, Canada and Singapore in 2025, a season he closed fourth again with 319 points and nine podiums while comfortably outscoring rookie teammate Kimi Antonelli.
The 2026 regulation reset put Mercedes back at the front, and Russell opened the era by winning the season opening Australian Grand Prix from pole in a Mercedes one-two. He added the Austrian Grand Prix later in the year. The problem is the other side of the garage. Through 13 of 23 rounds, Antonelli has seven wins and a 66 point lead, and Russell sits second having finished runner up at Monza in a race he led. Sources: Formula1.com, ESPN, RacingNews365.
Off track he is contracted to Mercedes through at least 2027, on a deal reported at around 34 million dollars a year with a performance based extension clause, and he lives in Monaco with his partner Carmen Montero Mundt. At 28, with seven wins and no title, he is in the strange position of driving the fastest car of his career while watching the championship happen from the next seat along.
