P1racenews AI automatic summary:
The early races of the 2022 season saw porpoising occur throughout the grid, particularly at the Mercedes team. As it pushed for changes, Red Bull stated that the new rules helped its own squad.
Red Bull acknowledges that the changes made to address the porpoising issue in the 2022 season had a positive impact on their performance. Mercedes and other teams experienced bouncing problems with the new technical regulations. Red Bull took advantage of the new era and achieved consecutive double championships, winning 86% of the races in the past two seasons. Red Bull’s Head of Performance Engineering, Ben Waterhouse, admitted that they were not expecting such an advantage when the rules were introduced. Red Bull won 17 races in 2022, with Verstappen securing his second World Championship. They applied their learnings from the previous car to the RB19, which led to even greater success. The changes made by the FIA to address porpoising benefited Red Bull’s car, as they had experienced issues with floor edges touching the ground and damaging components in the previous model. Overall, Red Bull did not consider themselves the worst in terms of bouncing, but they were able to improve their performance by optimizing their interaction with the ground.
