F1 introduced a brand new car with the aim of improving raciไng for the 2022 season but the return to ground-effect technology has led to a recurrence of the high-speed bouncing phenomenon known as porpoising that had not been seen since the 1980s. 

Mercedes’ W13 challenger has been plagued by bouncing but most of the teams have been hit by porpoising at some stage this season, and the issue was more noticeable than usual during 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历♔史:both practice sessions on Friday in Baku. 

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz had already called for F1 to open a debate on the long-term hea🌞lth impact of the sport’s new generation of cars, while Russell previously warned the bounꦡcing would be unsustainable after suffering with back and chest pains at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April. 

“🤪There was a little bit of it [the bouncing] but it’s just that the cars are running so close to⛦ the ground,” Russell said after FP2. 

“It’s crazy out there through those high-speed corners, the car’s full💫y bottoming out. I think it’s the same for everybody and it’s really not comfortable to drive. 

“I don’t know what the future holds for this era of cars, but I don’t think 🔜it’s right to run like this for the next fo🌌ur years, or whatever we’ve got. 

“For all of us, conversations are going to be nee🙈ded as everybody is in the same boat, really.” 

Asked what was the hardest thing about h𓂃is day, Lewis Hamilton repꦫlied: “The bouncing.”

The seven-🐈time world champion rev𝓰ealed that he was left “a bit sore” but said he would “get by”. 

Struggles continue for Lewis Hamilton in Baku 

Russell ended the day as the fastest Mercedes in seventh place, while Hamilt⛦on finished down in 12th, with both drivers over 🍸a second off the pace set by Ferrari’sꦕ Charles Leclerc. 

Russell conceded that Red Bull and Ferrari are currently “too far ahead” for Mercedes to even think about mounting a ch💝allenge this weekend. 

“It wa💧s a tricky day, we weren’t as competitive as we would have liked,” he sai💫d. “Again, a tricky track to get the tyres in the right window. 

“You see with a number of drivers, their fastest laps𝓰 were coming right at the end of the run, whereas Ferrari and Red Bull, they seemed to be abl꧃e to turn it on. 

“At💖 the moment, they just have an inherently faster car than us and we’ve done everything we can to try and catch up. If we’re totally on top of the tyres we’re not going to fully close that gap - or 🍒we’re definitely not going to close that gap, they’re just too far ahead. 

“So that’s probably 50% of our𒅌 issues - the rest is just the lack of per🌼formance we have at the moment.” 

Hamilton had been quicker than Russell in opening practice💛 and put his FP2 struggles down tꦆo an experimental set-up change that did not work.

“We tr🍌ied something experimental on my car and it didn’t feel that great, to be honest,” he explained. 

“But at least we tried it and got data on it, and now we’ll go through it and hopefully for tomorrow💛 we’ll probably revert back to what we changed.”

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Hamilton reacts to FIA president's comments

Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the FIA president, used social media to clarify that he “always believed in sport as a catalyst of progress in so💮ciety” after comments were attributed to him that questioned Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel sharing their views on societal issues.

Hamilton reacted: “That doesn’t stꦯop us doing what we areℱ doing."