I’ve watched F1 enough years and I mean this with the upmost respect to Antonelli because I’m a fan but this situation is so not right at Mercedes in my opinion. Russell is no slouch, he beat Hamilton comfortably 60% of the time during their time together and wiped Kimi last season, then at Melbourne he was clear too, then I think Kimi gets his first win on pace in china and Mercedes then realize they can have the youngest WDC in history as a marketing tool, add to that Kimi is much much more marketable than Russell due to the Italian heritage. I genuinely think they don’t have the same cars or at the very least the same batteries and deployment strategy’s because Russell’s fall off is not all down to him. F1 is highly political.