Will the FIA listen to F1 drivers over long-term health fears?

Previously Carlos Sainz and George Russell had been the main voices warning of potential long-term neck and back issues, a legacy of the very obvious porpoising and bouncing issues that their cars have experienced this season. Most of their colleagues, essentially those whose cars were not suffering badly, had kept fairly quiet – at least in public.

After the first day’s running on the bumpy Baku track, many others were given a taster of what the Mercedes and Ferrari…