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Hill predicts ‘pogo stick' bouncing for the W13 in Baku
Damon Hill would be 'very surprised' if Mercedes didn't suffer with extreme bouncing in Baku, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell going 'up and down like a flipping thing on a pogo stick'. Debuting a zero-pod W13 as Formula 1 swapped to ground effect aerodynamics to create the cars' downforce, Mercedes have spent 2022 porpoising, bouncing and bottoming out. It looked, at least in Spain, as if they had resolved those issues with Russell back on the podium in what he felt was a pace-driven result. However, one weekend later in Monaco, both Russell and Hamilton complained of severe bouncing with the latter saying it felt as if his eyeballs were about to pop out of his head. Finishing P8 while...
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