But without a test, where do you draw the line? Just looking at video footage, how can you be sure the wing is too low? And if other teams flex, how much flex is allowed? What about when you hit a bump and it moves more? Its also far easier for a team to say - we think its legal and the FIA to say its not, but there'd be no evidence, only opinions to back it up. It brings the sport into yet more disrepute.
I'm surprised that the RBR mechanics always stand around the rear of the car, surely with all the attention the front wing is getting they would be better off standing around the front, or is it just a diversionary tactic?
looking at the front what do you expect to see? maybe a cable to the driver to pull once he's rolling?
no offence intended. I just don't think looking will reveal anything at the front. But at the back......
Non taken. I think the engineers covering up the back is just a smoke screen. We've seen under the car (thanks to Webber in Valencia) and we constantly see slo-mos of the rear, perhaps they need ot take a closer look inside th cock pit, Webber isn't shy of having a good poke around other people scars and once upon a time someone looking in a McLaren found 2 brake pedals
Bob - funny you should mention brakes - I was in a pub near Woking last night and somebody was quietly chatting about you know who removing front brakes for the next race. Lots of weight saved I gather.
How much of an advantage is this flexi wing? In the article right at the top of this page Hamilton said it was half a second, but last year Whitmarsh was saying that it gave over a second a lap. A few teams have flexi wings, but the Red Bull flex is the biggest, and although Red Bull pass the FIA tests, images and video footage clearly shows the endplates almost touching the ground. I've heard other stories that the nose might be flexing as well. Why don't the FIA just look at the video evidence which proves the wing is flexing? Or just increase the load on the front wing?
I don't think it's a simple load that causes the flexing, more a combination of forces that occur while the car is in motion. The arguement is that it's impossible to accuratly tell from video how much the wing flexes, seems a daft argument given that we now have super slo mo hi def TV feeds and systems like hawkeye can track something the size of a tennis ball in 3 dimensions at speed. However, now the teams know they can flex their front wings as much as they want providing it passes the FIAs load test, I wish they would just get on with copying it rather than banning it.
