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Mercedes don't know if the W13 is ‘fast or not'
Andrew Shovlin says such is Mercedes' porpoising problem that the team has no idea if their W13 is actually a fast car or not. Adopting ground effect aerodynamics this season, almost all of the teams have suffered with porpoising to some degree. Porpoising is the result of downforce pushing the car down onto the track which causes the underfloor aero to stall, and as that happens the car rises off from the track leading to the underfloor aero kicking in. The car is then pushed back into the ground and so it continues. That leads to a bouncing motion along the straight with the Mercedes W13 seemingly suffering more than its rivals. So much so that Shovlin, Mercedes' head of trackside...
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