FORMULA 1 star George Russell feels like he is driving a SPACE HOPPER due to the extreme bouncing his Mercedes suffers with. A side effect of this has been a phenomenon known as porpoising, which has seen the cars suffer from extreme bouncing. Mercedes, the team Russell and Lewis Hamilton drive for, have suffered particularly badly with this throughout the season with Hamilton complaining of a bad back in previous races. Russell revealed what the porpoising felt like to BBC Sport: “It’s kind of like you’re on one of those space hoppers – that’s an extreme version. The Hungarian Grand Prix next weekend represents the final race before the mid-season break.

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