While the team has solved the porpoising and bouncing that underlined its 2022 fall to third, the fixes have exposed an underlying ground-effects concept that fundamentally... read more »

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has conceded that it is unrealistic to expect Mercedes to catch up to Red Bull in the 2023 Formula 1 season. Although Mercedes has not suffered a... read more »

Albert Fabrega is back at the Tech Talk desk explaining the ever-evolving world of floors on an F1 car. For more F1® videos, visit https://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®:... read more »

His comments echo those the seven-time world champion made after his first run in the troubled W13 last season in what turned out to be his first winless campaign in F1.However... read more »

As well as last year's W13 suffering from porpoising and a lack of useable downforce, it also left Lewis Hamilton and George Russell facing a deficit on the straights.The... read more »

The Mercedes camp was buoyed by the lack of bouncing during the first of three days at the Sakhir circuit following a 2022 significantly hampered by the returning porpoising... read more »

Last year, many F1 teams struggled with excessive bouncing on the new ground effect cars, which led to lobbying to tweak the regulations for 2023 on safety grounds.For 2023 the... read more »

Now we've seen 2023's F1 race cars on track, the actual aero tech behind the speed cannot be hidden any longer. We've seen various front wing designs, floor... read more »

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell made an encouraging start to the 2023 test on Thursday with a car that didn't seem to suffer from porpoising like its cursed... read more »

Mercedes was pleased to report "no bouncing" during the first of three days of testing at Bahrain as it has sought to eliminate the porpoising phenomenon that dogged... read more »

Mercedes has been under scrutiny during Bahrain testing as it seeks to recover from a 2022 campaign hurt by porpoising and drag that caused its fall to third in the... read more »

The fifth season of the highly successful Drive To Survive docu-series has been released on Netflix, with one of the big highlights being a heated exchange between team bosses... read more »

When F1 made the radical switch to ground effect aerodynamics for last season, an unwanted issue became apparent. read more »

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff was involved in a furious row over porpoising with Formula 1's other team principals, the release of season five of Netflix's Drive to... read more »

It's that word again: porpoising. read more »

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has suggested the new W14 is "balanced in the right way" after avoiding porpoising in its first session of running. read more »

Mercedes has not had any porpoising problems during the opening hours of pre-season testing from Bahrain, says team boss Toto Wolff. Last year, the Brackley-based squad... read more »

Twelve months on from its troubled test in Bahrain, where the German car manufacturer was plagued by excessive porpoising, the team seemed in a much happier place with its... read more »

What have the FIA changed in F1's technical regulations for 2023? From floor changes to fight against porpoising and bouncing, to roll hoop safety changes, to banned wings... read more »

Following last year's technical regulations overhaul, F1 undergoes minor changes to the new era of ground-effect cars launched last season.The biggest tweak to last year... read more »

The 2023 F1 technical regulations were published some time ago with the reduction from 798kgs to 796kgs highlighted as part of a general push to eventually have lighter... read more »

Toto Wolff has pinpointed the reasons Mercedes were unable to solve their porpoising issue quickly during the early stages of the 2022 F1 season. read more »

Aston Martin deputy technical director Eric Blandin has warned porpoising will not be completely eradicated this year. read more »

At the start of 2022's new ground effect era, Aston Martin's launch specification car proved unsuited to the new rules.Just like Mercedes, the team had anticipated... read more »

Russell and Hamilton are set to embark on their second season as Mercedes team-mates in the 2023 campaign, which will follow the difficult 2022 season where Mercedes' W13... read more »