Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has indicated that the new directive introduced by the FIA at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix undermines a lot of the work that has gone into fixing and phasing out “porpoising.” Both George Russell and Sir Lewis Hamilton struggled physically in Baku last weekend as their Mercedes cars bounced vigorously on the track surface due to the low ride heights. The Silver Arrows ran their cars aggressively low in Monaco and Azerbaijan having solved the main aerodynamic “porpoising” problem in Spain, but the cars are now bottoming out a lot more than they did previously because of the proximity between the floor and the track surface, as well as the stiff...
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