{"id":45538,"date":"2025-10-07T05:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/russell-victory-in-singapore-boosts-him-to-f1-title\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:18:03","slug":"russell-victory-in-singapore-boosts-him-to-f1-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/russell-victory-in-singapore-boosts-him-to-f1-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell: Victory in Singapore boosts him to F1 title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">George Russell feels ready to fight for the world championship after his victory in Singapore<\/h2>\n\n\nAfter a remarkable victory at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, Mercedes driver George Russell has expressed his confidence in his ability to compete for the world title.\n\nThis triumph represents Russell&#8217;s fifth career victory and the second of the season, following his success at the Canadian Grand Prix in June.\n\nThe race took place on a circuit where Russell had an accident two years ago, losing the opportunity to fight for victory in the final laps. The driver believes that his performance measured on Sunday is proof of his progress.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am a very different driver today than I was a couple of years ago, and I feel more complete, more confident. I know exactly what I need to do in certain circumstances.<\/p><cite>George Russell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRussell admitted to feeling nervous before the race, as usual, but assured that he did not feel additional pressure.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I feel ready to fight for a championship. I feel ready to take the next step.<\/p><cite>George Russell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1006%2Fr1556381_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"George Russell\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nSince joining Mercedes in 2022, Russell hasn&#8217;t had a car capable of competing for championships.\n\nIn his three seasons as Lewis Hamilton&#8217;s teammate, Russell finished just two points behind the seven-time champion and currently leads his rookie teammate Kimi Antonelli by 149 points after 18 races.\n\nRussell believes he has matured as a driver in the last two years and would make the most of a car capable of achieving consistent victories throughout a season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think it comes with experience, just knowing how to maximize each situation. I was probably driving a bit more tense a couple of years ago and probably forcing things in circumstances where I shouldn&#8217;t have.<\/p><cite>George Russell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Mercedes driver added that he now feels much more relaxed and that, given the rain that fell before the race, he remained calm, understanding that it was the same situation for everyone.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell feels ready to fight for the world championship after his victory in Singapore After a remarkable victory at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, Mercedes driver George Russell has expressed his confidence in his ability to compete for the world title. This triumph represents Russell&#8217;s fifth career victory and the second of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[442,439,441,9369],"class_list":{"0":"post-45538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-formula-1","8":"tag-george-russell","9":"tag-mercedes","10":"tag-singapore-gp"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}