DANIEL RICCIARDO believes Lewis Hamilton has enjoyed not having the ‘strongest competition’ during his dominance of Formula One. He told Square Mile: “To answer it diplomatically, I think Lewis isn’t the only one that could win races in that car. “That’s obviously my opinion and I think that George Russell, in a way, showed the possibility of that by pretty much beating Valtteri [Bottas] in his first race. The Aussie noted: “I think, where we can’t be too aggressive or disrespectful to Lewis, is that, do a few of us believe we could beat him? And if he doesn’t, it’s, ‘OK, what happened to Lewis?’.”. “I think one is that obviously we’re not in direct competition – we’re not trying to basically end each other’s careers.

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