Mercedes endured a nightmare start to the ground-effect era with a car that suffered from wild porpoising, which forced the team to run its car higher than it wanted.

The bouncing also prevented the Brackley outfit from chasing pure performance until the issue could be resolved, as evidenced by 2022's first five races across which Lewis Hamilton and George Russell failed to make any meaningful progress.

But this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, for which Mercedes unleashed a raft of upgrades on its W13, finally appeared to have delivered the breakthrough it had been looking for.

From Friday practice onwards, the porpoising appeared all but gone and Mercedes chief Wolff confirmed that the team has its Achilles' heel problem solved.

"Yeah, we understand now," Wolff told Sky Sports afte

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