George Russell is the latest from Mercedes to voice his hopes for a good showing at the British GP but he concedes 'Red Bull and Ferrari will be ahead'. Mercedes' season has been blighted by porpoising, the Brackley squad with its zero-pod W13 suffering more than most with the bouncing phenomenon that is a consequence of ground effect aerodynamics. Costing the team downforce as they have had to raise the ride height of the car, the severity of the bouncing is track dependent with the team experience it to the extremes in Monaco and again in Baku. After a solid Canadian Grand Prix, one in which Lewis Hamilton finished third and declared that the bouncing had been reduced to '2G to 3G at...
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