F1, Charles Leclerc at the wall: for George Russell, the cause is another.

According to Mercedes driver Russell, it was porpoising that sent Ferrari driver Leclerc off the track in France

Mercedes driver George Russell in an interview with the BBC explained his views on the accident of Charles Leclerc, who went to the wall in France when he was leading the Grand Prix. According to the Englishman, the problem can be traced to porpoising, or the car’s jumping around the track: “You can clearly hear the bouncing from his on-board: a ‘Tch, tch, tch’ for the whole corner and you can see his head dancing up and down. Mick Schumacher in free practice had gone out in the same corner, with the car touching with the bottom. This is an unnecessary risk and a danger.”

“Definitely those jerks don’t help,” Russell continued. “We know what the load variation is on our cars, and when we bounce up and down like that we’re talking about 50 percent of its weight. So if the car weighs 700 kilograms and the variation is 400 kilograms, we drivers can’t control it because we’re talking about 400 kilograms of variation every half second when you enter the corner. Both accidents in that corner in France were caused by the oscillations on entry.”