Alonso ‘concerned’ about ‘extreme’ Baku porpoising

Fernando Alonso fears this year’s all-new cars, even the Alpine, could suffer “extreme” bouncing at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Introducing ground effect aerodynamics as the design philosophy behind this year’s cars, many of the Formula 1 teams have suffered with porpoising.

The cars bounce, sometimes violently, up and down on their rear suspensions in a motion that has been dubbed porpoising.

It seems the faster the car goes, the more porpoising it can experience although having said that Mercedes suffered badly with a bouncing car around the streets of Monaco.

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This weekend the Formula 1 teams will have to deal with both aspects, speed and a street course.

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix takes place on the streets of Baku where a 2.2km straight sees the drivers hit a top speed of around 340kph.

And that, Alonso fears, will mean extreme bouncing.

Asked if he was excited to be racing in Baku, he told the official F1 website: “Yeah, absolutely. I think it’s still a street circuit, just the speeds are very different, especially at the end of the straight.

“I’m a little bit looking forward to see how these cars perform in Baku, especially the bouncing effect on the straights.

“Here it could be quite extreme, and we are a little bit concerned about this as I think is everybody.”

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