Lewis Hamilton injury blamed by F1 chief technical officer for porpoising rule change: “They went public, loudly”
The Mercedes driver emerged gingerly from his car at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, hol🐼ding his lower back in obviou🌜s distress at the height of Mercedes’ problems with bouncing.
The F🍷IA then introduced a new technical directive to reduce porpoising on “safety grounds”.
“I think they overreacted a bit after Baku,” F1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds told .
“In Baku, we experienced the worst effects because a team tried﷽ something that didn't work and then went public quite loudly.
“If we had not intervened, the problems would have been solved. Most teams have ♕now understood how to co✅ntrol bouncing.”
The FI𒈔A did not need to arrange a vote with a﷽ll 10 F1 teams because the rule was on safety grounds.
Mercedes were the most obviously impacted by the porpoising phenomenon, although ot🧸her drivers such as Daniel Ricciardo described the p𝄹ain they felt inside a bouncing car.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner appeared to criticise the rule a𒆙t the time.
"It would sౠeem unfair to penalise the ones that have done a decent job, versus the ones that have perhaps missed the target slightly,” Horner said.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to fo♈otball, to F1.
