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Title card reading Ground Effect, the suck-down and the bounce, showing a black and yellow Red Bull car head-on at night throwing sparks from its floor.

F1 Ground Effect and Porpoising Explained: The Idea Too Powerful to Trust

Ground effect and porpoising explained, how the floor sucks an F1 car to the track, the Lotus cars and fan car that made it famous, why it was banned in 1983, and why its 2022 return made the cars bounce.

Bhavin Lathia· Aug 5, 2026