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Mercedes are ‘now specialists in bouncing'
Mercedes have become such specialists in bouncing that Toto Wolff says they can break it up into 'porpoising or bouncing or bottoming'. Swapping from over-air to ground-effect aerodynamics to create downforce, this championship's buzz word is ‘porpoising'. That is the bouncing the car does when the underfloor aero stalls as the downforce pulls it closer to the ground, only for it to kick back in as the car rises away from the track. Mercedes' W13 seems to suffer with it more than its rivals, the car's zero-pods blamed for that as there is very little keeping the floor stable. The team introduced new wings in Friday practice for the Miami Grand Prix in the hope it would be a step...
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