‘It’s promising to see’ – George Russell encouraged by new FIA porpoising update ahead of Canadian Grand Prix

George Russell has supported the new announcement made by the FIA yesterday regarding the issues teams are having with porpoising. In Baku last week at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Mercedes were especially concerned with the physical challenges that the bouncing of the car was causing their drivers.

Ad/> This has now led to the FIA this week revealing a new set of measures and regulations that all the teams must adhere to in order to combat the porposing issues. Canadian Grand PrixFIA issues new measures to tackle F1 back pain in 'interests of safety'16 HOURS AGO George Russell was optimistic when speaking to Sky Sports this week on how the FIA have shown a «front-foot» approach to tackling the problems.

He said: “I think it’s something that we as drivers have spoken about globally, that we want change moving forward because what we went through last weekend just wasn’t sustainable. “It doesn’t matter what boat you’re in, you’re either porpoising and you’re hitting the ground, or you have no porpoising so you’re running the car really close to the ground and you’re bottoming, so either way you look at it, it’s not great.

“I think it’s promising to see that they’ve taken action on this straight away and it’s not taken them weeks and months and political decisions to change something like this. “When it comes to safety, things need to be resolved as soon as possible, so I’m not surprised to see it come in so quickly, but I think it’s good for everyone.” FIA issues new measures to tackle F1 back pain in 'interests of safety' Seidl labels Ricciardo speculation as a 'broken record' ahead of Canadian GP However, there remains concern that the new measures that will be introduced could have a detrimental effect on the performance