Porpoising - a phenomenon that was a common occurrꦛence in F1 during the previous ground effect era - has become one of the dominant talking poi👍nts of the first pre-season test, having caused a headache for several teams at Barcelona. 

With F1’s new generation of cars seeing a♛ return to a ground effect philosophy, several cars have suffered with the issue over the opening two days of running🔯 at the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. 

Cars have been spotted bouncing up and down on their suspension after reaching high speed on the straights, resulting in a loss of downforce and presenting a potential problem for the drivers through the fastest corners.&n𝐆bsp;

Mercedes and Alpine were visibly effected on Wednesday and Thursday respectiv⛎ely, but almost all of the teams appear to be 💮struggling with their cars bouncing. 

Ferrari team principal Binotto believes most of the team’s did not anticipate porpoising becoming an issue when developing tꦜh🥂eir cars on the wind tunnel. 

“🐟When you're setting these cars up with the🐻 ground [effect] floor, the situation it's different. It's a learning process.”

While Binotto thinks a fix “can be quite straightforward”, he thinks teams who get a handle on the problem the earlie🥀st will have an advantage at the star🐭t of the season. 

“Optimising the perfo🌠rmance, because it should not be a compromise, you should try to avoid the bouncing by getting the most of the pꦛerformance of the car,” he explained. 

"That could 🌟be a less easy exercise. I am pretty suꦦre that at some stage the team will get to the solution.

“How long it will tak🦋e? The ones that will get there sooner will have an advantage at the start of the season.”

That view was echoed by Alfa♐ Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur, who revealed his side’s C42 challenger was also suffering ♐from the effects of porpoising. 

“Some elements are not easy to d🎉uplicate in the windtunnel or the simulator, and we are all facing the same issue,” he said. 

“To fix the problem is not the biggest i🎉ssue, but then to be efficient will be the key. 

“How quickly the team will reac💮t will the key for the first races. I’m sure that in three or four events, we won’t speak anymore about bouncing but today it’s the question.”