Mclaren should win every race in 2025 says Mercedes Russell

SHANGHAI - Mclarens 2025 Formula One car should win every race, rival Mercedes driver George Russell said on Thursday, adding that the 2024 champions are further up the road than Red Bulls title winner was in 2023, during which it won all but one race.

Their car is definitely capable of winning every race, and their car should win every race, the British driver told reporters ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix. The gap they have on everybody this year is bigger than Red Bull has ever had.

Red Bulls 2023 car was arguably the most dominant in the sports history, with the RB19 crossing the finishing line first on 21 out of 22 occasions and beating Mercedes to the constructors championship by a record-breaking 451 points.

Mclaren locked out the front row in qualifying for last weekends Australian Grand Prix, with Lando Norris nearly four tenths of a second quicker than Red Bulls four-time world champion Max Verstappen in third.

The 25 year-old driver went on to win the race and also set the fastest lap, and the Briton is already established as the title favourite.

Norris is looking for his first hat-trick of wins in China.

(Mclaren) may struggle when its cold, but theyre clearly better than everyone else at cooling their tyres, Russell said, pointing to Las Vegas, a street track, as one of the outlier circuits where the team in papaya potentially will struggle.

Mclarens Oscar Piastri shrugged off Russells remarks.

George has come up with some funny things in the last couple of weeks, the Australian driver said.

If he wants to write off his season after the first weekend, then Ill let him do that, but I think were very aware that Melbourne was an exceptional weekend rather than what were expecting to be