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Leclerc: F1 porpoising effect like aeroplane 'turbulence'
Charles Leclerc says the porpoising effect suffered by F1's new generation cars produced a sensation similar to turbulence in an airplane and made him feel "a little bit ill". Porpoising, or a car's unstable vertical pumping movement caused by aero forces circulating within a car's underbody, was a well-known by-product of Formula 1's ground-effects era in the late seventies and early eighties. But the phenomenon came back to haunt teams in pre-season testing in Barcelona with each outfit now devising solutions to mitigate the effect that makes a driver's ride very uncomfortable at high speed on the straights. "It feels like turbulence on an aeroplane, going up and down the...
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