An understandable decision, but perhaps too hasty, given that porpoising at the time of the introduction of the Technical Directive, in Belgium, was already under control for almost all the teams.Īt that juncture, the FIA got carried away by the image damage that Baku had brought with it and pressured by Mercedes itself to try to solve the problems of the W13 (also) with external ‘help’. Structural changes that, in the current season, were certainly impossible. That was a provisional intervention, in the very short term, pending the introduction of the 2023 modifications, with the raised edges of the floor and the throat of the diffuser designed precisely to limit porpoising. Last year porpoising was an urgent issue for everyone, especially from the point of view of safety, and the famous Technical Directive number 39 was implemented, which also provided for the use of a metric (in addition to the part linked to the flexing of the floor) to judge whether or not a car was safe to avoid what had happened in Baku for Mercedes, with the aerodynamic bouncing seen as a direct impact on the health of the drivers.

What is certain is that possible regulation changes for the current season are not a solution, at least not a fair one. Opposing teams failed if they wanted to use the regulation changes to make up ground against Red Bull, who have less time to develop the car using the simulation tools, factory tools, also due to the (frivolous) penalty for exceeding the Budget Cap limit. FIA: regulation changes, especially during the current season, are not the solution

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