What Mercedes suspect caused return of car bouncing problems at F1 Belgian GP

Mercedes believe the way they set their F1 car up, not their new upgrades, caused the bouncing issues they experienced at the Belgian Grand Prix. 
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Belgian Grand Prix, Spa Francorchamps,
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Belgian Grand…

Having seemingly rectified the significant bouncing and porpoising issues that plagued much of their 2022 campaign, the problems unexpectedly resur☂faced las꧂t weekend in Belgium. 

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Both168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell reported excessive bouncing at high-speed during Sunday’s race at Spa-Francorchamps, with the seven-time world champion stressing his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:concern ﷺ🗹at the returning phenomenon

After the race, Toto Wolff admitted the bouncing may have bee🅰n caused by the new sidepods and flo෴or designs Mercedes introduced and said an investigation wo💝uld be carried out. 

But Mercedes suspect the issu🐟e was related to car set-up and the specific nat🎉ure of the circuit. 

“We definitely had an amount of bouncing this weekend, both drivers 🐼were tellingꦺ us that and we could see it in the data,” Mercedes chief technical officer Mike Elliott said in the team’s post-race debrief video. 

George Russell (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Belgian Grand Prix, Spa Francorchamps,
George Russell (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 W14. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 13, Belgian Grand…

“We could also see an amount of bouncing on the other cars and I think some of it is the natuꦍre of 📖the circuit at Spa and in fact we had huge amounts of bouncing last year as did most teams. 

“In teams of the performance, it definitely affects the performance of the cars because it affects the drivers’ ability to extract the ma♋ximum grip from the car, it affects their balance and it affects their ability to get their braking points right. So that is something we will be working on forಞ the future.” 

Elliott added: “👍The question we need to ask ourselves is, how much of it is just t﷽he circuit we were at in Spa and how much is to be found in setup because obviously it was a wet race weekend, a weekend where we had no dry running up until the point we were actually racing. 

"We will also take a really good look at🉐 the upgrade kit and make sure that we’ve not introduced bouncing with that but at the moඣment our belief is it is probably a result of setup or the circuit itself.” 

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