Wolff: F1 teams have to be “protected from ourselves” over porpoising

On Thursday the FIA issued a technical directive specifying that it intends to impose an “acceptable level of vertical oscillations” on safety grounds.
The change is likely to force Mercedes to raise the rideheight of its car at least at some venues, potentially costing performance.
Wolff has welcomed the initiative as a way of forcing teams to ensure they address the issue and protect …Keep reading
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Ferrari’s F1 reliability dramas just a ‘bump in the road’ says Sainz

The Maranello squad has squandered a strong championship lead earlier in the season to hand the advantage to its chief opposition Red Bull.
Despite having a consistently quick car, engine failures for early championship leader Charles Leclerc in Spain and Azerbaijan, plus strategy errors in Monaco, have resulted in valuable points slipping through his fingers.
While the recent …Keep reading
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How the FIA’s F1 porpoising clampdown will really work

In the wake of an especially brutal Baku race for a number of drivers – with Lewis Hamilton’s back pain highlighting the battering some are facing right now – intervention by the FIA in trying to eradicate the problem has added a fresh dimension to the debate.
In a technical directive sent on Thursday to teams by the FIA’s single-seater technical director Nikolas Tombazis, the governing …Keep reading
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F1 Canadian GP qualifying – Start time, how to watch & more

The reigning F1 world champion dominated the practice timesheets on Friday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, leading in both practice sessions, with a best time of 1m14.127s in FP2.
Despite taking second place in second practice, Charles Leclerc goes into this weekend with an uphill fight due to a 10-place grid penalty after Ferrari gave him a fresh control electronics element on his power unit …Keep reading
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Leclerc questions why Ferrari’s efforts in taming F1 porpoising should be wasted

A number of drivers, in particular Mercedes’ George Russell, last weekend urged motor racing’s governing body to work to get rid of the bouncing phenomenon from the current generation of cars because of health and safety concerns.
The FIA responded almost immediately with a new technical directive issued to teams ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix that detailed an action plan.
As well as …Keep reading
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