Russell doubts Mercedes can take Copse flat out this year

George Russell may have to lift as he goes through Copse this weekend, his Mercedes’ porpoising problem ruining one of the highlights of racing at Silverstone.

It has been well documented how this season Mercedes have struggled with porpoising more than most, their W13’s zero-pod design said to be compounding the issue.

While the car has bounced at every circuit, it has been worse at some, such as Monaco and Baku, and better at others, most notably Barcelona.

But even at the Spanish Grand Prix, Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton had issues through the circuit’s two high-speed corners – Turn 3 and 9.

It has Russell wary about what lies in wait for him and his team-mate when they fly through Copse Corner at Silverstone this weekend.

“It all caught us by surprise when we went to Barcelona, and we weren’t porpoising down the straight, but then we got to the corners, the two high speed corners – Turn 3 and Turn 9 – and were all bouncing through the corners,” Russell told Motorsport.com.

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“If you listen to our onboard during qualy or the Ferrari onboard, you hear them like ‘crush, crush, crush’ through the corner itself in Turn 3 and Turn 9.

“Now that was at 250km/h – Copse is 300km/h.

“So, it’s not going to be easy to navigate. But I think there’ll be a number of teams in the same boat.”

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