Hamilton finished sixth in the 2022 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 standings, his worst-ever result while not winning a single race for the fi🅰rst time, but Mercedes teammate Russell finished fourth and won a maiden grand prix in Brazil.

Although Hamilton, aged 37, will vie to win an all-time record eighth F1 championship next year by wrestling the title back from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, he may find comp🦄etition from inside the Mercedes garage.

“I think I’ve got enough experience now that I feel ready to fight for a championship and be able to handle the cha♎llenges and difficulties that come with it,” Russell told .

“Obviously the likes of Lewis and Max have more experience in that scenario. But if you go out and you put it on pole and win every ra🎉ce you will be world champion. So you have just got to focus on smaller details and it’s in your own hands, almost.”

Russell outperformed Hamilton in the early parts of 2022 as Mercedes battled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:porpoising, leading to questions about the seven💦-ti🍨me world champion’s ability at that stage.

It has since emerged that eaไch driver ran different experiments in a desperate attempt to shed the W13 of its problems🔜.

Russell did, however, emerge from a debut season alongside Hamilton with incredible𒉰 credit.

“We went through the stats and statistically I finished ahead of my tཧeammates, I think 95% of the time, in the five years prior to my year here,” the ex-Williams driver said. 

“So I was used to a 𝓡certain level of outscoring them ཧor whatever you want to call it. 

“But the🅘n I had to say: ‘If it’s 55/45 in my favour, even if I lose 45% of the time, that’s going to still be incredibly successful against Lewis’.

“So psychologically you 🤡need to set yourself up for small failures. I’m notꦇ going to beat him every single session, every quali, every race, that’s just absolutely not going to happen. 

“But having a year like we’ve had this year, I don’t know what the numbers are, but it probably is 55/45, roughly. And that’s an incredibly successful year, and almost equivalent to maybe what the 95/5 w♔as for me previously.

“I always believed in myself, but definitely it’s always a mindset. And if you go with the mindset that I’m going to beat Lewis Hamilton 95% of the time,🐻 you’re going to come away disappointed.”