The return of ground effect aerodynamics this year as part of a major overhaul to F1’s technical regulations has led to several teams experiencing high-frequency bouncing with their cars at hi🐓gh speeds during the opening pre-season test at Barcelona.&n🧜bsp;

This phenomenon occurs when the airflow under the car is disrupted or stalls, resulting in loss of downforce and causing the cars to dram♑atically bounce up and down when reaching a certain speed on the🧸 straights. 

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto warned that many teams had “underestimated” the porpoising issue, which he suggested won’t be an easy♋ fix. 

And new Me♏rcedes driver Russell is also concerned about potential safety hazards posed by the phenomenon tꦐhat has returned to F1 for the first time since the early 1980s. 

“I th꧙ink it has the potential to be a real safety concern if it gets out of control,” said Russell. 

“Obviously if you’re flat-out down the straight and it starts to happen, you don’t back off in a ಌrace scenario. We saw with Charles’s video just how bad it was for them, so I think we all need to find a solution.”

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But Russell is confident that teams will come up with the necessary꧋ solut🃏ions to combat the problem. 

“I guess if active suspension was there that could be solved with a click of your fingers,” he added. “And the cars would naturally be a hell of a lot faster if we had that🦹 and I’m sure all the teams are capable of that. 

“So that could be one for the future. But let’s see in Bahrain. I’m sure all the teams will come up with so🍒me smart ideas around this issue.”

Ferr🐭ari’s Carlos Sainz described it a🍰s “annoying”, while AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly admitted it was “not pleasant”. 

However, new Alfa Romeo signing Valtteri Bott🅘as does not share the same concerns as Russelꦯl. 

“For now I don’t think it’s a safety issue,” the Finn said during Alfa Romeo’s team launch on Sunday. “I think ⛎it’s j𓄧ust the way that the aero of the car works.

“Obviously it’s a fact that the lower you go with the car, the more you have downforce. And if you find a way to have a good ride in the car, being able to run it low, you might gain some performance. But obviously in some places [that comes] with a cost of the ride itself, especially 🐲in high speeds and over the bumps.

“So it’s quite an interesting ne🌠w philosophy on the aero side of the car. I don’t think 𓂃it’s going to be a big concern. As a team we need to work around it and we need to make sure that the car is reliable enough for these regulations and it’s the same case for every team.

“I think now it’s a big talking point but I would imagine as long as the season starts going෴, teams are understanding more and more, it’s going to b🌊e less of an issue and less of a talking point.”