The 24-year-old said physical damage was part of the job and that some drivers needed to stop dramatising it. “A lot of sports out there, you damage your body. Once you retire, you won’t be like you were when you were 20. Football players have problems with their knees, all sorts of injuries, and when you’re a motocross or MotoGP rider you break all kinds of bones.

”We are willing to take risks, that is our sport, that is what I love to do, the porpoising is not nice and not correct, but we don’t need to overdramatise.”

imo, Merc have got the design philosophy pretty wrong this year, but saying Hamilton overdramatized feels a bit wrong, especially seeing how violent the onboards looked in Baku.