Ocon asks FIA to interfere in car quik: "We have no way to prepare".

What was just a performance problem for the Formula One teams has now become a health problem for the drivers. The violent kicks experienced by some teams at the Azerbaijan GP, especially Mercedes, raised questions about the impact on the athletes' bodies. Lewis Hamilton was the one who questioned most about back pain, and even claimed that he almost crashed because of the porpoising.

Pierre Gasly went further, and called for the International Automobile Federation to intervene in the matter in order to prevent titles from having to use canes at the age of 30. Now it was the turn of his compatriot, Esteban Ocon, to give his view on the matter. The Alpine driver agreed that the call for change has been growing among drivers and stated that there is no way to prepare the body for the quiques.

"Yes, I think that's true. We don't want to sound like divas, complaining that the cars are too hard to drive, but we need to point out that this is not something healthy thinking about the future. It's not necessarily the porpoising, I think the cars are too stiff and it gets in the way on long straights. We have no way to prepare our bodies for that," emphasized the Frenchman.

There were also those who saw exaggeration in the complaints. Christian Horner, Red Bull's boss, refuted the statements of George Russell and Hamilton and said that the quibbles are part of the game. Asked about Mercedes' complaints, Ocon recalled Russell's podium finish in Baku and said that the German team's situation does not look so bad as to need changes in the regulations.

"George finished on the podium today, so it doesn't look so bad to me. I think it's something that the FIA will take a look at, probably for the future, and we will support it. It's the role of the FIA and the inspectors to decide what we can do or not do in the future," Esteban concluded.

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