Exclusive: 'Leave it alone' - Red Bull principal Christian Horner hits out at new F1 floor changes for 2023

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hit out at Formula One’s proposal to make further changes to the technical regulations for next season. There has been a big debate this year about porpoising, which is when the cars bounce harshly, which was brought to light at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with several drivers complaining and feeling it was “unsafe”. Ad/> Lewis Hamilton struggled to climb out of his car after the race and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly fearing drivers could “end up with a cane at 30 years old”.

Formula 1Exclusive: ‘A mature package now’ – Horner on ‘evolving’ Verstappen8 HOURS AGO There have also been suspicions that some teams are exploiting flexi-floors which the FIA will clamp down on from the Belgium Grand Prix with a technical directive that targets porpoising and flexible parts. Horner has already stated F1 shouldn’t be introducing a technical directive since “it’s up to the teams to sort their own problems out” and is weary of further floor changes for next season. “Changing rules because a couple of teams haven’t managed to hit targets is never the right thing to do,” he told Eurosport.

“If you want to have convergence in F1, the best thing to do is to leave it alone. Then all the teams will converge. “What you would see next year, if the rules were left completely alone, I’d be surprised if you saw any bouncing because we've got some of the brightest engineers in the technical world solving these problems.