Tim Hodges

But the fact, what he's doing to George Russell is honestly gobsmacking that you go back to March in Melbourne when George Russell had pole position, won the Albert Park Grand Prix.

And you thought then that Mercedes was clearly, and everyone knew they were going to be the pace setter heading into the season because they had their heads around these new cars and these new engines better than anyone else.

And you just thought with George Russell, who has bided his time in this sport,

for nearly a decade, that this was going to be his year.

Finally, he was out of the shadow of his longtime teammate, Lewis Hamilton, and this was going to be the year that he was the champion.

He was scintillating in the opening round of the season.

He has been absolutely trounced in qualifying and race day ever since by his teenage teammate.

That's not the way it should have been playing out.

You only have to listen to... I mean, he throws the toys out of the cot more than Max Verstappen, which is saying something.

So they are all drama queens on the Formula One grid.

But, gee, George Russell is having some hissy fits this year that he thinks the team is now prepping the car to favour Kimi Antonelli.

Like, it's crazy.

But I don't want to say he's home and hosed because I thought in August last year that Oscar Piastri was going to be the world champion.

And we unfortunately know how that turned out.

But, gee, it's going to take something...

Quite remarkable to see Antonelli not be the world champ this year, which in his teenage year, I know he'll turn 20 by the end of the season, but by every factor, the youth, the second year in the sport, the fact he's landed in one of the big teams, but the fact he's not daunted by that, the fact he's not daunted by...

His more fancied teammate in Russell, to be winning and to be dominating qualifying as well, just shows the class of the kid that we have got something really special in Grand Prix racing.

Yes, he's getting close to his first win as a Ferrari driver.

I mean, you do marvel at... Kimi Antonelli grew up idolising two blokes, Max Verstappen, who he shared the front row with after qualifying.

and shared the podium with Lewis Hamilton, who he idolised.