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Horner suspects Merc overplaying car issues

Christian Horner suspects teams such as Mercedes are overplaying the dangers of their cars bouncing at high speed to force a rule change. Lewis Hamilton hobbled away from his Mercedes car with back pain after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where he spent much of the race being violently bounced around in his cockpit when driving down Baku's long straight. McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo compared the sensation to someone bouncing his head like a basketball. Hamilton's teammate George Russell has said F1's current cars are a major accident waiting to happen due to how badly they bounce around at high speed. Mercedes is struggling for competitiveness this year and is off the pace of the leaders, which...
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