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'Porpoising' F1 car made Leclerc feel ill
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc compared the "porpoising" sensation in new Formula One cars to turbulence on a plane and said it made him feel ill in the opening preseason test. F1's new cars displayed one very odd bit of behaviour at the first test in Spain, bouncing up and down on their suspension when reaching top speed when driving in a straight line. One video which went viral of Leclerc's car doing this at the Circuit de Catalunya showed just how extreme the phenomenon can be. Editor's Picks 'Porpoising' is F1's new buzzword... but what does it mean?
9dLaurence Edmondson The sensation has been dubbed "porpoising" as it looks like the movement of a propoise as it...
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