The problem is that when the car hit the track, it hit the track. The design they were working on, which was fast in the simulator, caused “breathing”, a feeling that many cars had, but which hit Mercedes harder.
It had very good grip,” Hamilton explained. “And unfortunately we got to the track, there was no rebound in the wind tunnel, and we encountered this phenomenon.”To explain cycling simply, the rebound motion is caused by the traction under the cars as they increase speed
The speed sucks the car into the ground until the air flow stops, then the traction is lost and the car rises to fix the air flow and repeat the process\ n Where most teams – even leaders Ferrari – had this problem, it was mostly on the straights, while The Mercedes porpoise keeps turning the corner.
As you can imagine, that’s not good for lap times, and the team believes it’s responsible for most, if not all, of their shortfall of about a second per lap..
