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British GP Preview: George Russell on his excitement for F1 Sprint at Silverstone

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🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Forget about the football, this week is all about F1 at Silverstone and the British Grand Prix. To celebrate, Tom and Damon are joined by Williams’ young superstar George Russell to look ahead to his home race – and the exciting arrival of F1 Sprint and a new weekend format. He also discusses his F1 future and whether there’ll be any announcements this weekend…
 
To guys also share anecdotes from the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, reminisce on memories of Silverstone past, and debate who might take home the silverware this year, be it Red Bull, Mercedes or someone else.
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a George Russell-tastic edition of Ask Damon, where the ’96 champ answers your questions.

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So Damon, just imagine for a second that you wake up on a Sunday morning and you go,

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what am I going to do today?

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And you think, I tell you what, I'm going to go to the Goodwood Festival of Speed,

0:37.0

then I'm going to go to the Wimbledon Final, and then I'm going to go to the final of the Euro 2020.

0:43.0

That was Mr Tom Cruise on Sunday.

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Extraordinary, isn't it? It is extraordinary, but I have another possible explanation, which is,

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you know he has his stunt double toy, he doesn't actually do, he has his own, he does his own stunts, doesn't he?

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How do we know which one was the Tom Cruise, the real Tom Cruise?

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You know what they're like in Hollywood? Well, I can answer that.

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His stunt double was a Goodwood, wasn't he?

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And he's a man called Wade Eastwood, who looks like a 50 year old Clint Eastwood.

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And he looks nothing like Tom Cruise.

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So there's absolutely no doubt whether it was Tom Cruise or Wade.

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They look nothing like each other.

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I think that's a pretty cool Sunday to do Goodwood Wimbledon Euros, isn't it?

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