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

That was the view of a number of drivers who joined in a debate on the matter in Friday’s regular briefing in Azerbaijan.

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.