Christian Horner voices opposition in ride height debate emerging over porpoising

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner has said that it would not be fair on certain teams if regulations were tweaked surrounding suspension and ride height to try and negate the porpoising that some are suffering right now.

Porpoising and bouncing have been buzzwords this season for F1 teams with several of the cars pounding the tarmac at high-speed thanks to ground effect.

Indeed, we saw it arguably at its most extreme in Baku at the weekend, with Mercedes appearing to really suffer more than most, leaving Lewis Hamilton with bad back pain after the chequered flag.

The weekend appears to have sparked a new debate in F1 as to whether the rules need to be tweaked to either introduce something like active suspension, or just change ride height regulations to try and reduce the bouncing but, naturally, for the teams who do not have such an issue, their argument is that those that are suffering can simply sort it themselves, at a cost of lap time and performance.

Indeed, Horner is in that camp with the Red Bull car the strongest of all at the moment, and he had this to say:

“The easiest thing is obviously to raise a car. So… you know, the team has a choice to do that,” Horner said.

“You have a choice where you run your car, don’t you? And you should never run a car that’s unsafe.

“I think that’s more for the technical guys – because there are certain cars that have issues, and there are some cars that have few issues.

“It would seem unfair to penalise the ones that have done a decent job versus the ones that have perhaps missed the target slightly.”

You can see where he is coming from too.

Of course, safety is the number one priority and a number of drivers have voiced their concerns, not just at Mercedes, so it remains to