Tost done with complaints about porpoising: 'Then you should just stay at home'
F1 News
- GPblog.com
Since the first week of testing, it is clear that the Formula 1 teams suffer from porpoising, where the car bounces up on the straight because of the high pressure created on the car. The bouncing gives a tremendously uncomfortable feeling and the teams have been working hard to solve this.
Almost everyone succeeded in doing so, except Mercedes. The porpoising effect was so extreme in Baku that the FIA has issued a technical directive to reduce the bouncing. A good development according to many, but team boss Franz Tost of AlphaTauri has a different opinion.
Clear language from Tost
"If the cars are too stiff, it's too difficult for them (the drivers) maybe they should stay at home, in the living room sitting in a chair and they can do their races," Tost let it be known in the press conference for the Canadian Grand Prix, which news agency Reuters was present. According to Tost, it had long been known that the cars would be difficult to drive and that such problems could occur.
"Now the drivers complain about it. I can understand it is not so easy for them, on the other hand this is a Formula One car not a Rolls Royce." Tost, on the other hand, does hope that the FIA's technical directive will clarify exactly how big an impact the porpoising has on the driver's body.