The Ferrari flashed through, climbing the hill left-to-right under pitch black skies. Sparks flew from its floor, its rear end bucking, bouncing. Porpoising?
The buzzword of the 2022 campaign was out again on the first day of 2023 pre-season testing, which got under way in Bahrain on Thursday. Just as Max Verstappen and Red Bull led the way in the times, still there was interest in the aerodynamic phenomenon that rather blighted the first season of Formula 1’s return to running ground-effects cars. And it was a fair question – had the minor rule revisions that raised rear floor edge heights by 15mm an …

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