The floor changes the FIA has pushed through to combat porpoising will cost F1 teams half a second in 2023.
In the wake of the problems that a number of teams faced last year with excessive bouncing, the FIA intervened to try to eradicate the phenomenon.
One of the key ones was a 15mm raising of the floor edges, which is aimed at discouraging teams from wanting to run their cars so close to the ground where the porpoising problem rears its head. Asked how much downforce teams will be expected to lose, Tombazis said: “Not too much. I would have thought they’re going to lose about 15 to 20 points of downforce which maybe corresponds to about half a second, or something like that. Maybe.Carlos Sainz, Ferrari F1-75, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W13While a number of teams were completely caught out by the extent of the porpoising that the 2023 F1 cars suffered from, Tombazis reckons that nobody anticipated the scale of the issues.
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