Mercedes is stupid if this is going where it looks like itās about to go
Stupid how?
Mercedes is invested in George Russell. They have to make a decision. He just matched Bottas on pace all weekend his first time in the car, and he's younger and could be had for cheaper. There's alarm bells going off all over Mercedes right now because if they don't lock GR up they're going to lose him. Lewis' contract is coming up, and he may call it a career any day now. And now they have evidence that Bottas isn't quite exactly what they thought he was with respect to the rest of the grid.
If they lose GR, they're in a situation where they may be stuck with Bottas and someone else for a number of years while someone else benefits from the investment they made in GR all these years.
And GR isn't a bum. He's one of the most highly touted young drivers in years, and it's a crime he's been stuck at Williams waiting his turn this long. Mercedes fukked up re-signing Bottas, point blank.
RTL is reporting that Red Bull are now including GR in their replace Albon sweepstakes instead of just Perez. Mercedes letting Red Bull get 2/4 of the best young drivers on the grid, one of them they bankrolled, would be a gigantic L.
Max, GR, Lando, and Leclerc are the future of the sport. Mercedes can't have all this success, and all this money, and be left with none of them. Bottas as team leader versus those four is just asking for a '91 or '95 type season where the best team with the best car loses to a better driver.
Mercedes has to either get him in the seat for 2021, or give him something iron clad that it's his in 2022. He has options now.
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