George Russell on his father's tough-love tactics that made him a better driver

Mercedes Formula 1 driver George Russell has revealed that his father used to mistime his karting laps to keep the British driver grounded as he moved up the motorsport ladder.

"I didn’t know any different, to be honest, because I jumped in and I was winning races and I was fast," Russell explained on the Untapped podcast when asked how quickly he realised he had a gift.

"I probably didn’t know because my father was so hard on me. I always felt that I wasn’t good enough for my father. When I used to do go-karting, at the time, there was no real data analysis. We didn’t even have lap times on practice days. It was literally my father with a stopwatch.

"And I learned after about five years that he would always time me late, so my lap times looked slower than reality. He would tell