Ferrari confident it has got on top of the porpoising headache after F1 testing. Ferrari has got on top of the porpoising headache.

Scuderia Ferrari is cofident it has already solved the issue of porpoising which several Formula 1 teams encountered during the first three days of pre-season testing session, which took place at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona last week.

The Maranello team was struggling at times with excessive car bouncing down the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya straights, and a video published on social media illustrated the phenomenon as Charles Leclerc was experiencing it in the F1-75 car. However, just a few days after the testing session concluded in Spain, the Italian side feels it made some good progress on the issue and was in a much happier place with its challenger for the 2022 Formula 1 season.

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Scuderia Ferrari Mattia Binotto explained: “On the bouncing, I think it was an issue but it’s not any more. If we’re looking at this on Thursday afternoon and earlier on Friday, I think we are bouncing a lot less. And somehow we are managing the situation.” – he explained.

Regardless of the problems with porpoising, Scuderia Ferrari was impressive during the Spanish testing and was pointed out by many as the most promising of the teams so far. Mattia Binotto continued to play down his side’s chance and believes that the performance of every team will close up once they are running in much more relevant conditions.

“We are happy, first because I think we have done a lot of laps. We have learned from the car, collecting data, but I think if you look at the performance of the lap time, it is too early days. We are not running all in the same conditions and I am expecting other cars to be very fast. More [important] for us was to be consistent running, and really try to collect as much data as we could, because there are still a lot of issues to address or potential to extract. I think that now we will be back in Maranello before to go to Bahrain and we have a few days really to look at all the data and try somehow to optimise the current car.” – the Ferrari boss concluded.