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Voice of the Paddock: This season has been a snoozefest, the most sanitised, anaemic shadow of F1 imaginable. And Russell's refusal to even try to unsettle Antonelli sums up its 'Drive to Survive' problem (Article): (Only George Parts) Yet, yet, yet, this is a boring season. The sport has reached the apogee of Netflix’s Drive to Survive genre, the most sanitised, anaemic shadow of Formula One you could imagine. Ha, and to think that great Rabelaisian James Hunt won the title 50 years ago last week in a more buccaneering era with scraps and taunts and honest opinions overflowing, as well as a line of British Airways stewardesses outside his bedroom door. Antonelli, a brilliant driver just out of his teens, is chilled but also a product of corporate Mercedes, trained up to his eyeballs to be circumspect since he joined them aged 11. He has not uttered one memorable line all year. Nor has Russell, someone I know better and have always liked, jousted with Antonelli verbally. Again, corporate Mercedes is at play, when Russell might otherwise have ripped into the team and stamped his feet for clearly favouring Kimi. (I repeat again and again, Russell has not been sabotaged; I just don’t believe he is Toto Wolff’s favourite son.) So there has been no intra-team tension displayed, as well as no contest on track for months. Russell has won just three times to Antonelli's nine. Why has Russell not got out his elbows as Nico Rosberg did when he used every possible psychological device to beat Hamilton in 2016 rather than keep talking about being the team player. It seems a sad and fatal statement of submission. Bernie Ecclestone wondered: ‘I don’t know if George has that killer instinct you need.’