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McLaren least affected by porpoising, Ferrari on top of it

'Porpoising' is the word doing the rounds in the Formula 1 community after the conclusion of the first pre-season session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 'Porpoising' is the phenomenon when an F1 car starts bouncing on the straights at high speeds, an inherent feature of the ground effect concept around which the new 2022 F1 cars are built. We shall not go into the details of explaining this phenomenon now as out Technical expert Mark Kay, addressed it with quite some detail in his last version of Tech Draft. In a video posted by F1 on twitter, the Ferrari F1-75 was seen 'porpoising' on the straights to a great extent, and since then the topic has been a hot one within the sport....
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