As happened at the end of other GPs this season, the week following a race brought back discussions and complaints from the riders on the subject of porpoising, the real ‘Achilles’ heel’ of this first part of the world championship and of the new aerodynamic regulation which came into force this year. Contrary to other tests, however, various F1 protagonists have found more physical suffering in withstanding the rebounds of the cars on the circuit of Bakuenough to push the FIA to intervene to analyze the possible long-term effects on the neck and back.
An appeal launched above all by George Russell, driver of a team like the Mercedes particularly in difficulty in stemming these problems. In Baku, moreover, the seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton he even struggled to get out of the car, defining the last test “The hardest of his life”, to the point that team principal Toto Wolff would not rule out his non-participation in the next round in Canada. If we exclude the universe of the Brackley house, other drivers of the caliber of Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo have also highlighted the potential dangers of porpoising on the health of competitors, joining the Mercedes chorus to ensure that something can be done to limit or cancel this phenomenon.
In all this, however, there are those who are not there: Christian Horner. The Red Bull team principal believes that the protests of the drivers are actually the result of pressure from their respective teams, which would lead them to complain about obtain a regulatory change: “The simplest thing would be to raise the set-up of the car, and each team can choose to do so – he explained after the GP – you can choose how to set the car, and you should never run an unsafe car. I think this is more of a problem for the technicians than anything else, because some teams have problems, while others have few. It would seem to me unfair to penalize who made a good workcompared to those who may have missed the objectives “.
In addition, Horner also confessed that if Red Bull had particularly suffered from porpoising, he too would have ‘invited’ his drivers to openly complain about the problem, as others are doing from his point of view: “I would tell them to protest as much as possible via radio and make a question out of it to be resolved absolutely – he added – its part of the game. It’s like someone dives into the penalty area. It is evident that it is uncomfortable. There are remedies, but this is to the detriment of the car’s performance. So, the simplest thing to do is to complain from a security point of view. But each team has a choice. If it were a really a safety issue for the entire starting grid, then this aspect should really be taken into consideration. But if the problem only concerned isolated people or teams, then it is something that should be addressed by that team ”.
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