Mercedes can start catching F1 rivals after solving porpoising

Mercedes endured a nightmare start to the ground-effect era with a car that suffered from wild porpoising, which forced the team to run its car higher than it wanted.

The bouncing also prevented the Brackley outfit from chasing pure performance until the issue could be resolved, as evidenced by 2022’s first five races across which Lewis Hamilton and George Russell failed to make any meaningful progress.

But this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, for which Mercedes unleashed a…