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George Russell & Marcus Dudley A Mercedes performance-engineering veteran of the Rosberg and Hamilton title years, on Russell’s car since 2023.
George Russell’s driver profile →
Results Together Since 2023. Grand Prix starts only.
2026 season Championship position and points include sprints.
Driver career Since 2019, with every team and engineer.
Up to round 17, Singapore Grand Prix (2026-10-11).[2]
On the radio Bahrain Grand Prix (held at Sepang), 2026 · A power-unit failure behind the safety car ends Russell’s race. Russell Check PU. Something feels weird. PU hot. I think PU’s broken.
Dudley Okay we need to stop the car. Stop the car
Russell Argh, f**king hell! Argh!
Transcript as published[3]
Race engineer Marcus Dudley British
George Russell's senior race engineer at Mercedes.[1] [4]
Education Mechanical engineering, University of Leeds.[4]
Career 2006–08 Mathematical modeller at Honda Racing F1.[4] [5] 2009–11 GP2 performance engineer at Arden International.[4] 2012 Junior performance engineer at Marussia.[4] 2013–22 Mercedes performance engineer: Rosberg’s group (2016 title), then Bottas, then Hamilton (2019–22), deputising for Bonnington at a handful of races.[4] 2023– Race engineer to Russell.[1] Previously engineered This is their first F1 race-engineer pairing.
Performance engineer Not publicly confirmed Mercedes has not named this engineer, and no reliable outlet has reported who it is.
Engineering lead at Mercedes Andrew Shovlin Trackside engineering director[6]