F1 needs to consider impact of porpoising on driver health �Sainz

Carlos Sainz believes Formula 1 needs to consider the potential impact of porpoising on the long-term health of drivers.

The 2022 regulations indulge cars to use ground effect to generate huge amounts of downforce from the floor, but that has led to porpoising – or severe wavy – on the straights for some teams when they run their cars lower to proceeds performance. Sainz expects the issue is likely to icon heavily at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, and while he doesn’t have specific concerns well-nigh the physicality of the new cars in Monaco next week, he does want the drivers’ health to be considered.

“In winter testing this track was crazy, the porpoising that we had, so it will be a unconfined reference to know where we are with this full-length considering it will be a good test,” Sainz said.

“I think as drivers and Formula 1 we need to (consider) how much of a toll a suburbanite should be paying for his when and his health in a Formula 1 career with this kind of cars’ philosophy. I think we need to unshut a debate increasingly than anything.

“The regulations are unconfined – they are doing exactly what we needed for racing – but do we need to run as stiff for our necks and when as we are having to run lately with this car mass? For me, it’s increasingly a philosophy question that I put out there for F1 and everyone to think well-nigh – how much a suburbanite needs to pay a price in his career and his health in order to gainsay it. I am thinking increasingly long-term.”

While Sainz said he hasn’t spoken to an expert well-nigh what forfeiture might be stuff washed-up by the forces stuff put through his soul by the bouncing, he insists there are well-spoken signs for how he is stuff unauthentic currently, but he wants to talk to other drivers well-nigh their experiences.

“I haven’t had expert advice,” he said. “I’ve washed-up my usual checks on my when and neck tightness  and I see this year I’m tighter everywhere, and I am once feeling it. I don’t need expert translating to know that 10 years like this is going to be tough and you’re going to need to work a lot in mobility, flexibility and need to invest in overall soul health.

“It’s probably a question that as drivers we don’t like talking well-nigh much, considering we don’t like sounding let’s say weak. I’m strong. I’m unquestionably very fit, I consider myself one of the fittest drivers and I’ve never struggled in a Formula 1 race at all. It’s increasingly long-term, and for the goody of all of us that maybe we should put it out there to talk well-nigh and see what options do we have.

“Then there is the interest of the teams, of overtaking, of the show you need to factor in the equation. But what if we, for the first time ever, moreover factor in a bit of the driver? It could be interesting.

“It will get to a point that if we decide to go in unrepealable directions the FIA needs to get involved, for sure. Let’s see in the future. It’s still very early days – it was pretty much a thought that I’ve been having in the first five races when I’ve been suffering with porpoising, and this situation that I’ve never really brought up in a meeting yet.

“I was probably thinking out loud and it’s still very young in my head, and I need to talk to other drivers like George (Russell) or others that are struggling with the same phenomenon. We need to pretty much sit together to see what we can offer or propose.”