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Mercedes struggling to find balance between pace and porpoising
Mercedes are finding it a challenge balancing performance versus porpoising, that's according to the team's trackside engineering director Andy Shovlin. Porpoising is the gimmick word of this year's pre-season as the teams have all found their all-new cars bouncing on the straights, first in Spain and now in Bahrain. Porpoising is a consequence of using ground effect aerodynamics being used to create downforce. The car is pushed down onto the track by the downforce and, as it gets closer to the ground, the underfloor aero stalls. When that happens the car rises off from the track, which leads to the underfloor aero kicking in, and again the car is pushed into the ground. So it continues in...
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