billamend wrote: ↑03 Mar 2022, 14:18
SmallSoldier wrote: ↑03 Mar 2022, 13:56
It is possible, but I would suggest a bit unlikely… Based on everything I’ve read so far,
porpoising caught the teams by surprise, it wasn’t something that they designed around or that was part of the car calculations (simply because you wouldn’t see it in the CAD or Wind Tunnel models), so it would be unlikely for the team to have asked AMSP about it before hand.
That can't be true. It happened the same when we had venturi tunnels for the first time. Even Ross Brown mentioned that that could be a problem that teams need to face.
Maybe “unexpected” is the wrong word to use… Underestimated may be a better one… It’s what the likes of Binotto have said:
“Asked about the issue during a Thursday team bosses’ press conference, Binotto acknowledged: “I think that most of us at least underestimated the problem by where on track we are bouncing more than expected.”
https://the-race.com/formula-1/teams-un ... m-ferrari/
In addition, McLaren did had a few issues with porpoising with some test parts inducing the effect, per James Key:
“We had a couple of test items which appeared to promote it a bit more,” he said. “But then removing them reduced it, so you can fix it aerodynamically as well.
In the same article he also mentions in regards to the designing a car that specifically address this phenomenon:
“But I'd be lying if I said it was by design. I think it's a phenomenon we're all going to get used to from track running with these cars. And hopefully we can iron it out as time goes on, and learn how to remove it as an issue.”
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mcla ... t/8540476/
So, in my opinion, with so many teams (big teams, like Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari) suffering from it, it makes me believe that it wasn’t something that they accounted for since you wouldn’t bring a car to the track that experience that behavior if you “expected” it… And you wouldn’t be making on track crude fixes for the issue