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“Tell them to bitch as much as they could over the radio and make as big an issue out of it as they possibly could,”
he said, quoted by The Race,
when asked what he would do if the RB18 experienced extreme porpoising.
“It’s part of the game.”
Asked whether he believed that was what some teams were doing, he replied: “Of course it is.
“Look, it is uncomfortable but there are remedies to that but it’s detrimental to car performance.
“What’s the easiest thing to do? Complain from a safety point of view, but each team has a choice.
“If it was a genuine safety concern across the whole grid then it’s something that should be looked at. But if it’s only affecting isolated people or teams, that’s something the team should potentially deal with.”
As those suffering with bouncing begin to look to the FIA to implement a solution across the board, such as a minimum ride height, Horner says that would not be fair on teams such as
Red Bull who have minimal porpoising,
and are winning.
Instead, he said the “easiest thing” for Red Bull’s rivals is “to raise a car…so the team has a choice to do that.
“You have a choice where you run your car, don’t you? And you should never run a car that’s unsafe. But…I think that’s more for the technical guys because there’s certain cars that have issues and some cars that have few issues.
“It would seem unfair to penalise the ones that have done a decent job versus the ones that have perhaps missed the target slightly.”