- Driver suffers back and chest pains due to car’s violent bouncing
- ‘It really takes your breath away. I really hope we find a solution’
George Russell has said he suffered back and chest pain during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as a result of the “porpoising” problem disproportionately affecting Mercedes and warned drivers across the grid could not keep going until the end of the season if the issue persisted.
Russell managed to finish fourth at Imola having started 11th but his Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, suffered a frustrating and fruitless race in 13th, and the ingnominy of being lapped by race winner Max Verstappen, leaving team principal Toto Wolff to describe Hamilton’s car in particular as “undriveable”.