Mercedes driver George Russell has cautioned that a major incident is bound to take place because of the “porpoising' phenomenon that the Silver Arrows are struggling with this year. The reintroduced ground effect aerodynamics, which had been banned for forty years, mean that the downforce on the 2022 cars is generated by the floors of the cars rather than the aerodynamic parts on the chassis, making it easier to follow and overtake. There were always going to be performance gaps between teams as everyone figured out how to extract lap time from the entirely different design concepts, but they encountered one unanticipated issue. READ: Ferrari and Red Bull warned Mercedes have an...
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