The Mercedes F1 Team are once again scratching their heads and looking for answers, as the W13’s porpoising issue reached its worst stage yet at the Baku City Circuit. Despite the team hoping they’d solved the issue at the Spanish Grand Prix, the team suffered from bouncing both in Monaco and now in Azerbaijan. Both
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The Azerbaijan Grand Prix saw the ongoing porpoising issue appear worse than ever before, with a number of drivers speaking out over the “not healthy” problem. However, Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner believes drivers are being instructed to complain about the problem in order to slow Red Bull down. Red Bull are seemingly
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed that Fernando Alonso is the only driver who does not see the “porpoising” phenomenon as an issue. The bouncing on the straight caused by the new ground effect aerodynamics looked at its worst yet in Baku, particularly for Mercedes, whose seven-time champion driver Sir Lewis Hamilton suffered intense
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Max Verstappen joked with journalist Tom Clarkson about his language in the press conference following the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz both suffered reliability failures in Baku on Sunday, opening the door for Verstappen to lead home Sergio Perez for a Red Bull one-two – their third of
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Sir Lewis Hamilton has conceded that he is concerned about the health implications that driving the Mercedes W13 could have as the bouncing issues persist for the Silver Arrows. The abrasion between the floor and the track surface was worse in Baku that it has been all year for Mercedes, and even Red Bull and
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Sir Lewis Hamilton made race engineer Peter Bonnington aware of the “dangerous” amount of bouncing going on for the Mercedes during qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The nature of the new technical regulations in Formula 1 means that the ground effect aerodynamics affect the cars’ performance on the straights, and the floor of the
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A huge part of setting a good lap at the Baku Street Circuit is the slipstream; if a driver has one on the main straight, they can gain around half a second in lap time. George Russell qualified fifth in Baku ahead of team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton after he took advantage of a tow from
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Fans on social media have a tendency to kick people when they are down, and this has certainly been the case with Sir Lewis Hamilton this season. George Russell put in another mightily impressive performance in qualifying in Azerbaijan to start the race fifth, and he has out-qualified seventh-placed Hamilton for the fifth time in
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has revealed that Sir Lewis Hamilton was trying out some new parts on his car during qualifying in Baku, but they did not work as well as they would have liked as he qualified seventh. The “porpoising” has made a return for Mercedes this weekend as they continue to try
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Mercedes driver George Russell has suggested that action needs to be taken on the “porpoising” phenomenon before someone has a nasty accident. Mercedes have been bouncing off the track surface again in Baku this weekend as the issue makes a return, and it appears to be a fundamental issue with the chassis and floor itself,
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