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George Russell has called on Formula One to find a ‘scientific solution’ to this year’s bouncing cars or risk subjecting drivers to dementia.
Speaking ahead of Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix in a sweltering Barcelona, Mercedes’ rising star was responding to cars hitting their suspension hard, causing drivers’ heads to judder up and down.
Although Mercedes are particularly prone to ‘porpoising’, as the phenomenon is known, even Ferrari are troubled by the problem despite Charles Leclerc leading Max Verstappen by 19 points at the top of the standings.
George Russell fears the long term health implications of the porpoising issue affecting F1 cars
A 2019 survey claimed that professional footballers are three-and-a-half times more likely to die from dementia than the general population — and Sportsmail has led a campaign to tackle the problem.
Russell said: ‘When you are travelling at 200mph on the straight, and you are smashing up and down on the ground, you wouldn’t choose to have it that way.
‘You could compare it to the footballers of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties when they had the massively heavy footballs.
‘Analysis has shown
