Hamilton and Russell used this unique transport option to travel to Spain

10:30, 20 Jun 2024
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Ahead of this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell joined Toto Wolff in Barcelona to meet up with one of their shareholders to try their hand at sailing. Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS team are competing in the 37th America's Cup in October.

Russell and Wolff try their hand at sailing

Wolff (who, alongside Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS, owns a third of the Mercedes-AMG F1 team), Russell and Hamilton were given a tour around INEOS Britiannia's base in Barcelona by INEOS' founder Ratcliffe and INEOS Britannia Team Principal and skipper Sir Ben Ainslie.

INEOS Britannia is a project that combines INEOS Sport and Mercedes' Applied Science division, competing for the oldest international trophy in world sport. Russell and Wolff joined Ainslie on the water, after the full trio spent time on the team's simulator.

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