Listen to this article Until teams find permanent solutions, they might face a profound qualifying dilemma in 2022’s opening races. As explained in depth over the past week, porpoising occurs when ground effect cars get pressed closer to the ground on the straights, which stalls airflow and severely disrupts the process of generating downforce via the floor. The result is a series of dramatic oscillations as the cars get stuck in a loop of being sucked down to the floor, only to lose downforce again once and then rise up again. That bouncing motion is not just a mere annoyance for drivers, but as Mercedes’ George Russell said, it has the “potential to be a real safety concern if it gets out of control” during the race. While some outfits suffered more from the issue than others, they are all looking for solutions to first mitigate and then eliminate the effect. But with m …