FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has confirmed that F1's updated 2023 technical regulations that aim to eradicate porpoising will be submitted this week to the governing body's World Motor Sport Council. The porpoising phenomenon, a by-product of this year's new-generation ground effect cars, has been debated at length since the start of the season, especially by Mercedes whose cars' performance was severely impacted by the vertical oscillation movement at the start of the season. But the phenomenon was relatively widespread and concerns over driver safety compelled the FIA to intervene with a series of Technical Directives aimed at mitigating porpoising and flexi floors. However, the...
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