Mercedes looks to be in contention for victory at the Mexican Grand Prix. The German formation has got the hang of it after a difficult start to the season and thus looks set to compete seriously with Red Bull Racing, according to George Russell.
During the start of the season, Mercedes suffered a lot of porpoising, losing a lot of time on the competition. Among other things, it made a fight with Red Bull and Ferrari almost impossible, while the situation was also dangerous for Lewis Hamilton and Russell.
Russell notices progress at Mercedes
The FIA then decided to intervene and make some clear agreements with the teams to avoid problems with porpoising in the future. It resulted in an advantage for Mercedes, which was able to make some big steps forward as a result.
"I think it almost has disappeared," Russell points in the FIA press conference to porpoising. "I think the couple of small rule changes that were implemented by the FIA definitely helped and the changes into next year by raising the floor edge, we're almost 100% sure that will take porpoising out of the equation totally."
"There was once a time that I forgot what a race car felt like not to have porpoising and now to be honest, I forgot what it does feel like to have porpoising. So I think that also goes to show the progress we as a team have made."
Just a reminder, Mercedes were boasting that they got rid of the porpoising, and that their problems were about bouncing on track bumps, BEFORE the rule changes masked as a technical directive. I’m quite saddened to see Russell, who was such a likable character, become so full of sh1t.
so a rule change to please Mercedes, nothing new. why car's who don't bounce need to raise the car, only to make them slower so Mercedes can catch up.
Well only one team should raise floor up is merc .every race they have run car low to the floor
Ice and bret what you forget is that redbull intervened with fia to slow Mercedes down previously so if I was you I would keep quiet for once
Toto will be so upset with Russell who has openly revealed something that the paddock knows since Canada; that FIA is helping Mercedes to get back on top. 2023 will be another Farce from the FIA- Mercedes and i have been mentioning this since CANADIAN practice. Dont be shocked if Mercedes-FIA has a rocketship in 2023 and gift it to Lewis for his HOLLOW 8th
Well fia need to stop listen to toto bull and they need to start take action agents them .toto wants rules to be followed so ban lewis with his nose percing.and find out how toto new about the teams with buget cap
Thats all merc can keep doing ask for rule change .if other teams could sort it. why not merc oh becouse toto gets lewis to play act merc becouse merc are the bigest cheats in f1
The Mercs still seem to be porpoising, you can see it (and hear it) on the straights. They realize that the change in floor rules haven't made the sort of difference they thought it would.
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