Russell won't miss the rocking cars.

      On Thursday in Qatar George Russell recalled the first Mercedes built to the regulations in force – the 2022 W13 without sidepods, which suffered most from porpoising.

      The drivers really took a beating from it back then – in Baku Lewis Hamilton could barely get out of the cockpit, and Russell offered to have the senior engineer sit behind the wheel, but health and safety forbade it...

      George Russell: "We have a 'lap replay' mode on the simulator; Lewis and I wanted to put one of our engineers in the cockpit so they could understand what we feel behind the wheel on the Baku track. But a health and safety officer said it was too dangerous.

      But it was about one lap, and we race for an hour and a half, we're shaken all over — back, body, eyes. I remember the first year in Las Vegas, when I couldn't see the braking marker board — the car was hitting the tarmac so hard at over 300 km/h that I basically couldn't see anything.

      I spoke to several drivers, half the grid was in the same position, so yes, I'm glad these cars will be a thing of the past."