George Russell has revealed that his 2025 Singapore Grand Prix victory came in the middle of a difficult personal period he has not previously discussed.
Shown photographs of himself celebrating the win with his partner Carmen Montero Mundt, the Mercedes driver told ORF Sport the race meant more to him than any trophy because of what was happening away from the car at the time.
“I mean it was a very special weekend because there were a lot going on behind the scenes that not many people know about,” Russell said.
Pressed to say what he was dealing with, he declined.
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“No, one day,” he answered.
He explained instead why the photographs with Mundt mattered so much.
“Psychologically my brain was quite busy, then going out, putting it on pole, winning the race, was a really special moment and having Carmen there as well. Why this photos and this moment was so important to me because she was there through those moments off the track that I was dealing with so this is the part that people don’t see.”
Nothing in the result gave anything away
From the outside, the weekend looked like the most composed drive of Russell’s season. He took pole position at Marina Bay with a lap of 1:29.158, 0.182 seconds clear of Max Verstappen.
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In the race itself on 5 October 2025 he controlled it from start to finish on a Medium-Hard one-stop strategy and beat the Red Bull by 5.430 seconds. Lando Norris was third as McLaren wrapped up the Constructors’ Championship behind them.
It was Russell’s second win of the 2025 season and the fifth of his Formula 1 career, delivered on a street circuit where 62 laps run between concrete walls in high humidity and any loss of focus is usually punished at the next corner.
Russell did not expand on what the “moments off the track” were, and told ORF Sport only that any wider explanation would come another time.
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