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Leclerc says porpoising makes him feel a ‘bit sick'

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has complained about the porpoising effect the 2022 cars are experiencing and admitted it makes him feel 'a bit sick.' Porpoising was the talk of the pit lane after the first testing session in Barcelona last week as drivers found their cars bouncing up and down when hitting the straights. The effect is not one that the current crop of drivers have experienced before as ground effect cars were banned in the 1980s. But with the change to regulations this year, the problem has returned and some teams are finding it harder to manage than others. With the vast variations in design due to the 2022 regulations overhaul, the severity of which teams have struggled...
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