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Ferrari: F1 teams caught out by 'porpoising' ground effect issue

Mattia Binotto says teams underestimated the "porpoising" effect induced by F1's 2022-spec ground effect cars, but the Ferrari team boss is confident that everyone will eventually solve the issue. Porpoising, or a car's unstable up and down pumping movement, occurs when extreme downforce generated by a car's underfloor venturi is suddenly disrupted and pressure is released, causing a car's ride height to suddenly increase until the airflow reattaches. The oscillatory movement was a well-known and inevitable by-product of Formula 1's ground-effects era in the late seventies and early eighties. But the phenomenon has come back to haunt teams this season and appears widespread in...
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