MONTREAL, June 20 — Formula One’s bid to intervene in the sport’s ‘porpoising’ row on health and safety grounds produced ill-tempered clashes among team bosses and no progress during the Canadian Grand Prix at the weekend.
The FIA’s technical director for single seater racing Nikolas Tombazis is expected to meet the teams’ technical directors to find a solution and to reduce or eliminate the dangers caused by the phenomenon of ‘porpoising’ created by this year’s ‘ground effect’ cars. While drivers like Mercedes’ George Russell welcomed the ruling body’s move in the interests of driver safety, other teams expressed displeasure at seeing mid-season rule changes reduce their speed and success.
Most teams were annoyed by the timing of the FIA’s announcement which led to confusion about the implementation of any of the new measures designed to limit the bouncing.