Max Verstappen and George Russell raise health concerns over ‘unsustainable’ F1 car ride height
Max Verstappen and George Russell want F1 carꦗs to be raised amid health and safety concerns.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell have urged F1 cars to be raised after voicing ꦯ🥂concerns over driver health and safety.
The reigning world champion brought the issue up with F1’s governing body the FIA at last weekend’s season-opening Bah🐎rain Grand Prix, report.
Verstappen is quoted by BBC Sport as saying that the “impact is too high with the low ride-heights” when cars reach the end of t🐎he straight with full load.
The Red Bull driver said it is a problem for “our comfort, our spine, compression over the🃏 bumps” and has called for F1 to “revise that” for the upcoming 2026 regulation overhaul.
"We still run very low but I don't tꦬhink the 2026 car is going to be any different,” he added.
Meanwhile, Mercedes driver Russell believes it is “unsustainable” to keep running the current generation of F⛦1 cars so low.
"All the drivers have be🌃en speaking with F1 because it is a little bit unsustainable to keep running the cars like this," said the Briton.
"You🥀 get th🐬e most amount of performance running the car as close to the ground as possible and as stiff as possible, so you feel like your teeth are rattling out down the straight.
"The length of an AA battery is the distance we are fro﷽m the ground at the beginning [of the straight] and at the end it is the size of a chickpea.
"So every single tiny bump, it goe♈s all through your body, and we hope for the next generation of cars they find a better solution.”
Speaking to media including in Bahrain, Mꦅercedes technical director James Allison called for “more of a balanced approach” to wake management.
"There are things in the regulations that don't serve any of us well. I don't think ꦡit's sensible to have cars that hug the ground in the way these cars hug it, and I think the idea that you get good racing by controlling wakes while ignoring tyres [is flawed].
"The whole idea of cಌontrolling wakes [is] a kind of tilting at windmills type of challenge. That side of things has been𒆙 tested to destruction fairly evidently.
"🔯I don't think there is anything wrong in particular with ground-effect floors, but the particular layout of these ones that have a response to rear ride-height that is not particularly good for the cars, that isn't something we should carry into 2026.
"Among the the teams that would be a pragmatically accepted response. I think the FIA is still very much of a mind to pl𒉰ace wake management at the top of the tree of everything, sacrificing other stuff for it. And I think it would be helpful if there was more of 🔥a balanced approach."

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