George Russell 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. And, no matter how hard he tried, he wasn’t fooling anybody. 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...
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