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The approach taken by NASCAR worked because there were only 3 manufacturers involved and the aim appears to have been to pretty much equalise the performance of the cars between the 3 manufacturers.

 In F1 you have every team going their own way to find an advantage. No one is the least bit interested in equalising the performance of the cars so the same approach just wasn't applicable BUT the teams should have been given more track time to sort out the cars for the new regulations.

 F1 wanted to restrict budgets to make things easier for the lower funded teams and I understand that among the cost cutting measures are a limit on track testing time and a limit on the max speed that could be generated in wind tunnel tests but apparently the max speed allowed is too low to show up the porpoising problems so wind tunnel tests don't help to provide a fix and teams don't have track time to sort it out so how is the problem ever going to be resolved?

 One thing that I really don't understand is why the teams seem so surprised that there is a porpoising problem. The Arrows A2 showed exactly the same trait over 40 years ago and made Jochen Mass and Riccardo Patrese feel very seasick. Arrows identified the cause of the problem but were never really able to find a satisfactory solution. The only way ground effect cars really worked way back then was when active suspension came along which is banned under current rules partly as another cost cutting measure.

 History has repeated itself but many now believe that you can't learn anything from history so I can only assume that very few in F1 looked back to see what happened the last time ground effect cars ran. Great idea to allow the cars to run closer together to provide more overtaking but unfortunately something in the way the rules were written is flawed.