乔治·罗素being George Russell, a Jenson Button clone and one of the smartest drivers on the Formula 1 grid, it didn’t take him long to realise Mercedes were in trouble heading into the 2022 season.
而且，无论他多么努力，他都不会欺骗任何人。
It took just two days of the first pre-season test in Barcelona, a life before zero sidepods, for most to agree Mercedes’ slow start to testing felt different this time, that this wasn’t a team quietly going about their business as normal but combatting issues behind the scenes.
Amid trackside reports that the original iteration of the W13 was among the cars most severely affected by the porpoising problem that had taken almost every team by surprise, Russell – having already conceded Mercedes were behind Ferrari and Red Bull – was asked at the close of Day 2 how it felt from within the cockpit.
His answer, as he seemed to cul de sac himself in an attempt to downplay the significance of the sensation and protect his team, wasn’t particularly convincing.
“我的意思是，我们没有经历过也much,” he began while rubbing his face and looking into the middle distance, to the instant intrigue of body language experts. “Because, yeah, for one reason or another…”
罗素的话却落后了，因为他意识到自己要告诉一个很大的纤维（当然，F1司机永远不会梦想这样做，当然也不会在冬季测试期间……）在他恢复镇定之前。
“但这根本不是很愉快 - 从我尤其是其他团队的看来，这将是一个安全问题，因此确实需要以一种或另一种方式进行排序。”
刘易斯·汉密尔顿（Lewis Hamilton）承认，他“每次都担心”，因为他的肠胃奔波导致他背痛。https://t.co/9nYLmcSLjA＃f1
- Planetf1（@Planet_f1）June 14, 2022
While some have come to regard porpoising as a party trick of the 2022 F1 cars to be managed, from the start Russell – a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association – has been consistent in his view that it is a major safety issue requiring swift and serious attention.
在四月份的艾米利亚·罗马格纳大奖赛中获得第四名后，罗素透露他在胸部和背部痛苦中挣扎，这是对伊莫拉（Imola）弹跳的严重性，并坚持认为，“司机继续保持这一水平是不可持续的。”
上周末，他的担忧进一步在巴库（Baku）进一步增加了，甚至那些汽车上的那些人相对不受翅膀，直到本赛季的这个阶段，在颠簸，高速街头巡回赛上也感到不适。
在排位赛第五名之后，罗素再次坚持这种情况在当前规则周期的期限内无法保持不变，称其为“灾难的秘诀”。
他警告说：“我认为这只是我们看到重大事件的时间问题。”
“我们中的许多人几乎无法将汽车直接置于这些颠簸上。我们以每小时300公里的速度绕过最后两个角落，触底。您可以在停机坪上明显看到汽车驶向地面的距离。”
A striking indication of how the bouncing can batter a driver’s body came just 24 hours later as Russell’s team-mate, 37-year-old Lewis Hamilton, struggled to climb out of his car at the end of the Azerbaijan GP, rubbing his back before finally staggering away.
With a growing number of drivers – including Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly,当他声称孔肠港时，他只是在开玩笑，这将使一些驾驶员在击中30岁时需要拐杖- 顺便说一句，越来越明显的是，他的电话再也忽略了。
Yet, if we are to dismiss Red Bull team principal Christian Horner’s inference that drivers such as Russell are merely acting as mouthpieces for their struggling teams, it is surprising that Mercedes themselves have been relatively unforceful on the subject.
Ever since ‘porpoising’ re-entered the F1 dictionary in February, after all,梅赛德斯- 确信他们最终会破解代码 - 坚决这是唯一阻止他们解锁W13的全部和巨大潜力的事情。
当仅在上个月在巴塞罗那的一个周末，梅赛德斯的世界短暂地纠正了自己的观点，而车队老板托托·沃尔夫（Toto Wolff）坚信汉密尔顿（Hamilton）并不是在争夺胜利的情况下，如果不是第一圈的打击，梅赛德斯的世界才得以证明。
Other than that, though, Mercedes have struggled to find a full and permanent solution, and if they cannot resolve it themselves it would surely be in their best interests to wield their political power and exert as much pressure as possible for tweaks to the cars through regulation.
那么，为什么他们一周又一周又一次敲打鼓，竞赛后FIA将其从手中拿出来呢？
也许可以依靠图像吗？梅赛德斯（Mercedes）赢得了最后八个建筑商的冠军头衔之后，梅赛德斯（Mercedes）非常沉默寡言，被描绘成酸痛的失败者，因为他们的统治时期已经结束。
据说是瞿原因的一部分ietly dropped their appeal over the result of last year’s Abu Dhabi GP four days after the highly controversial season finale, and might explain why Wolff himself has not taken every possible opportunity to call for rule revisions to stop porpoising in 2022.
Another potential reason, of course, is that the pain Russell and Hamilton have experienced is largely of Mercedes’ own making.
迈凯轮兰多·诺里斯（Lando Norris）was among those to have little sympathyfor the bouncers in Baku, insisting teams “need to find ways of fixing it themselves” by striking the right balance between performance and driver (dis)comfort.
的确，有些团队在该部门的工作比其他团队做得更好，而法拉利尽管在某些场所像梅赛德斯一样暴力地奔波，但法拉利对其表现的影响最小。
A rule change at this point would see those teams go almost criminally unrewarded for building more efficient cars and, in the modern world, lead to accusations of Mercedes being gifted a shortcut back to the front.
Yet this increasingly is as much a long-term driver welfare issue – at worst, potentially the F1 equivalent of football’s heading debate – as it is a competition issue and it is likely it will fall on the FIA, either this year or next, to save the drivers from the machinations of their own teams.
If the Baku-Montreal double header looked ludicrous on the original 2022 calendar, it will now seem unbearable for those set for a second bumpy ride in the space of seven days at this weekend’s Canadian GP.
罗素和Hamiltonis likely to continue at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with Mercedes hopeful their Barcelona performance will become the norm when F1 returns to more conventional circuits starting at Silverstone next month.
In the meantime, Russell and Co can only hope their voices are finally heard.