George Russell: How One Bold Step Launched His Career in F1

I thought at the age of 16 the world would come to me. It was only during that year that I realized you've got to go and look for them, you've got to knock on their door. That speed and thrill I got from experiencing my Formula One car, I had added fire within my stomach. Success and victory is such an easy thing to deal with. Those failures are the times where you really question

yourself, your processes. I don't want to experience that ever again. That is the voice of Mercedes Formula One driver George Russell and this is High Performance, the show that turns the lived experiences of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. Now, imagine this. It's 2014.

A 16-year-old George Russell, fresh from a championship winning season in Formula 4, sits at his computer and he faces a crossroads. The dream of Formula One so vivid, so close, suddenly feels out of reach because despite the trophies, the sacrifices, and the relentless pursuit of perfection, the call from a Formula One team that George might have been expecting just hasn't come. Other drivers are getting the opportunities ahead of him. So in that moment George does something that will change his life, although he probably didn't know it at the time.

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