Mercedes set-up trials in Jeddah F1 practice didn’t solve porpoising

The Brackley-based outfit has faced a challenge in dialling out its car bouncing on the straights without compromising performance, with Lewis Hamilton lauding his third place in last weekend’s Bahrain season-opener as the “the best result we could have gotten”.

Mercedes is adamant that once it has a better understanding of what it needs to do to sort the porpoising issue, then it will be able to unlock the full potential of its W13 car.

But despite extensive work in the…