At the start of 2022's new ground effect era, Aston Martin's launch specification car proved unsuited to the new rules.Just like Mercedes, the team had anticipated... read more »

Russell and Hamilton are set to embark on their second season as Mercedes team-mates in the 2023 campaign, which will follow the difficult 2022 season where Mercedes' W13... read more »

The W13 came to be most closely associated with the porpoising problem that impacted every F1 team to some extent during the first season of the championship returning to... read more »

The German car manufacturer is coming off the back of a challenging 2022 campaign, where it struggled initially with high levels of porpoising on its W13.However, an intensive... read more »

The German manufacturer is aiming to bounce back from a disappointing 2022 F1 campaign when it slipped to third in the world constructors' championship behind Red Bull and... read more »

George Russell has revealed Mercedes was forced to "bin" its early development of the W13 after problems with porpoising became evident last term. read more »

Lewis Hamilton has copped the blame for the FIA "overreacting" to change rules surrounding porpoising. read more »

Mercedes' 2022 challenger has gone down as its worst since it became a regular title-winning force at the start of the V6 hybrid era in 2014, with the first Silver Arrow... read more »

The new ground-effects cars that were finally introduced for the 2022 season are the heaviest in the championship's history at 798kg. That figure is actually 3kg up on the... read more »

F1 technical chief Pat Symonds has conceded he "forgot" about the dangers posed to the sport's new era of regulations by porpoising. read more »

Alpine should not have any issues with porpoising with their 2023 design, according to Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer. read more »

After a difficult start to last season, as Mercedes battled excessive porpoising with its W13, the German car manufacturer made good gains over the second half of the... read more »

F1 chief technical officer Pat Symonds believes the changes made to combat porpoising midway through last year were an overreaction. read more »

Formula 1's chief technical officer Pat Symonds says that the FIA overreacted to the porpoising concerns that were vocalised early on in 2022. Amid the introduction of new... read more »

The FIA over-reacted when they implemented new rules to combat porpoising during the 2022 Formula 1 season, according to the sport’s chief technical officer, Pat Symonds.... read more »

Mercedes went into the 2022 season not expecting the effects of porpoising to affect them as much as it did, according to Andrew Shovlin. read more »

Mercedes High Performance Powertrains managing director Hywel Thomas has revealed his surprise at the "pounding" taken by the power units through porpoising. read more »

The switch to 18-inch tyres was a major part of this year's revised technical package, although they were often overlooked during the season as attention switched to... read more »

Mercedes engine boss reveals that it wasn't only drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell that took a pounding when porpoising was at its worst. read more »

Mercedes has opened up on the impact its bouncing 2022 Formula 1 car had on the Power Unit, claiming that it caused damage to the engines. In the early stages of the 2022... read more »

But the German car manufacturer certainly would never have predicted the kind of difficulties it faced with its W13.Having suffered the most extreme porpoising on the grid,... read more »

Mercedes topped the times at the Spanish Grand Prix venue with what was an early development phase package, an achievement that required significant ride height changes and... read more »

The middle phase of the 2022 campaign was dominated by the controversy over porpoising, and the impact of a technical directive from the FIA to try to help address the... read more »

After struggling to overcome early-season porpoising problems, Mercedes faced a number of false dawns with its W13 when it appeared that updates had resolved the majority of... read more »

Lewis Hamilton has hailed the progress Mercedes made throughout the 2022 Formula 1 season, despite there being "so much failure" during the year. Mercedes entered the... read more »