Little is known about what street cars Russell drove early in his career. Born in 1998, he only reached the UK legal driving age of 17 in 2015. He wasn’t seen with a street car on his Instagram profile until March 2019, when he posted a photo of him cleaning a Mercedes AMG C63. The car would have been worth around $70,000 at the time, depending on specification. Given it was likely provided by Mercedes itself, it was likely over MSRP with any complementary options.
Available as a sedan, coupe, and convertible, the C63 AMG is powered by a 4.0-liter, twin-turbocharged V8 engine producing 469 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque. It can accelerate from 0-60 mph in a little under 4.0 seconds, and has an electronically-limited top speed of 155 mph.
Russel scored his first F1 points in 2020, when he was called up by Mercedes to replace a COVID-positive Lewis Hamilton at the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain, according to F1. Russell led much of the race, but lost places due to a pit stop error by the Mercedes team. He recovered to second place, but was forced to pit again to replace a punctured tire, and eventually finished in points-scoring ninth position.
Around this time, he appears to have switched from a sensible sedan to a sportier two-seater for his everyday driving.
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