Gasly praises FIA(Formula 1) for quick response to drivers’ health concerns over porpoising | Sporty king
Gasly praises FIA(Formula 1)
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The
new ground effect cars introduced this year generate the majority of their
downforce through the airflow underneath their floors. This has resulted in
some teams experiencing porposing – where the car bounces at high speed – and
bottoming over bumps, causing major discomfort to drivers after long stints in
the cars.
Yesterday, ahead of the first day of practice for the Canadian Grand
Prix, the FIA announced they had
issued a technical directive outlining how they will conduct
tests to understand the effect porpoising is having and set a limit on how
severely a car may bounce before it is deemed unacceptable.
Gasly is pleased the governing body is making efforts to protect
drivers. “I’m happy they’re taking it seriously, that they’re trying to take
some measures as fast as possible,” Gasly said.
“At the end of the day, we are the ones in the car having to deal with
all these impacts and pains and stiffness that it creates in our back. I’m just
happy they understood the message and reacted quickly with some actions.”
Following last week’s race Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said
some teams’ warnings over porpoising were aimed at pushing the FIA to introduce
rules which would help them cut their performance deficit. However, Gasly
insists all 20 drivers agree action must be taken to reduce porpoising and
bottoming out across the field.
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“We all, between each other – putting the interest of any teams or any
car aside – we all clearly said this is clearly too much,” Gasly explained.
“You can’t even realise what it’s like just watching from onboards or
watching from outside. Once you drive in the car and you get hit for an
hour-and-a-half driving at 330[km/h], then it’s all a different perception once
you actually experience what it is.
“So I think we are the best placed to discuss the matter and I’m just
happy they understood that this is a serious, serious topic for all of us going
forward.”
While Haas team principal Guenther
Steiner fears the anti-porpoising directive could have an impact on the
relative performance of the 10 teams, Gasly doubts it will
significantly alter the competitive order.
“I think it’s going to be minimal,” he said. “I think we’re talking
about things which could be changed which would affect very, very little part
of the performance of everyone’s cars.”
Lewis Hamilton has
shared images on social media of him receiving physiotherapy to help his body
recover from the effects of driving his 2022 car. Asked by RaceFans whether he
is undergoing more physiotherapy this year than he did in 2021, Gasly replied:
“big time”.
“Last year I always had my, let’s say, normal sessions on Thursday and
Saturday,” he explained. “But it was really more to prevent anything, where now
it’s really to work on the tissues, the back and release all the pressure and
the tensions we’ve got.”
Gasly insists none of the F1 drivers are exaggerating the seriousness of
the problem. “We are not here just to complain,” he said. “It’s not like we want
to complain about something – we are not like that.
“I think we all love the sport as it is. We are all trying to just make
it a better place and push it forward. It’s just a concern for our all of us,
before even relating it to any performance – just putting all the performance
aside.”
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