[herr_oberst]

Back when Rob Walker was writing F1 race reports for Road & Track magazine, the new era of ground effects brought in by the Lotus 78 caused the drivers to complain about porpoising.

New cars, new rules, and porpoising is back.

One of the reports I read about testing in Portugal said that the drivers who observed Max said his car looked the smoothest. There is suspicion that he's been instructed to take it easy so as not to give away something that Red Bull has up its sleeve.

Further, Scarbs was talking today about the front A arms on the RB18 and he suspects that Adrian Newey has come up with something that causes the front end to dive dramatically under heavy braking thereby making the front wing more effective, reducing the porpoising that some other teams are experiencing.

And Mercedes today allowed their drivers to drop some of the sandbags off at the end of day 3 so that everyone would be biting their nails wondering if it was just going to be the same old same old.

I would love to see Ferrari and McLaren fighting for the wins and championships this year. My dream at the end of the season would be Danny, Lando and Carlos 1, 2 and 3 in drivers points.