“He’s absolutely right,” Former driver Damon Hill on George Russell’s solution for porpoising problems

“He’s absolutely right,” Former driver Damon Hill on George Russell’s solution for porpoising problems

Ahead of the 2022 Formula One season, teams are faced with challenges of Porpoising. Due to the new aero regulations, the new cars keep bouncing up and down on the straights at high speeds causing massive handling issues. Teams are looking for a solution ahead of the Pre-season Practice in Bahrain.

Mercedes F1 driver George Russell seems to have an ideal solution for porpoising and it is self-adjusting and automatic suspension. But the active suspension was banned by Formula one after the 1993 season after the infamous Williams grabbed the constructors title using the technology.

Former F1 driver and 1996 World Champion Damon Hill believes the Mercedes rookie is “absolutely right” that an active suspension system will be a good solution to porpoising in the 2022 Formula 1 car. Hill believes F1 should consider the solution for the upcoming season.

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Geroge Russlel is “absolutely right” according to Damon Hill

George Russell
George Russell

During the 1993 season, Damon Hill partnered Alain Prost in Williams’s car and the duo grabbed took 15 pole positions out of 16, and 10 victories. Prost claimed his 4th World Championship title and Hill finished 3rd and the two never finished lower than fourth place in any race that season. The championship-winning Williams car, the FW15C, featured hydraulically and an electronically-controlled active suspension with other futuristic driver aids which were later banned in the sport.

“He’s absolutely right,” he said on the F1 Nation podcast. “Because the brilliant thing about the active car was it could control much better the ride height of the car. So if you look at pictures of the car I drove in 1993, you’ll look at it and think, ‘wow, why is it on the floor?’ It literally was measured… It could keep its distance from the ground to within half a millimetre, plus or minus.”

He compared the tech between the two years and said “The greater the load on the car, the more they squash up and the stiffer they get, and the more likely they are to rebound. Whereas with the active car, the computer goes, ‘right, that’s close enough. We’ll just keep it there’, and off you go. It’s fantastic.”

George Russell will be partnering with 7-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton in his first year with Mercedes ahead of the 2022 Formula One season. Teams will be bringing their solutions to Purpoising ahead in the Official Pre-season Test in Bahrain on March 10-12.

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