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FIA delays porpoising control directive until Belgian GP

The FIA has agreed to delay until the Belgian GP its oversight policy regarding the porpoising and bouncing of Formula 1's ground effect cars. On the back of two Technical Directives released in Montreal and last week at Silverstone, the governing body had planned to introduce at the French GP a vertical bouncing metric devised to force teams to limit the bouncing and bottoming of their cars. A clampdown on the flexibility of the cars' floors was also planned, but the stringent monitoring and restrictions have been delayed until after F1's summer break following a meeting on Friday at Spielberg of the Formula 1 Commission. Read also: F1 teams get indexed budget cap increase to stem...
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