News Details

Four F1 teams tweaked ‘flexi’ front wing designs

Four teams made modifications to their front wing designs ahead of the recent Canadian grand prix. In the days after Monaco, we reported that the FIA was clamping down once again on the well-trodden area of so-called ‘flexi wings' in formula one. Spain's El Confidencial reported that a new 50 Newton-metre load test would be applied for front wing flexibility by FIA scrutineers in Canada. Germany's Auto Motor und Sport now reports that the new test was actually to the tune of 60 Newton-metres, on suspicion that some teams were getting as much as 10 centimetres of aero-efficient flexibility from their front wings. From Canada, only 3 millimetres of flex would be tolerated during the...
Full Story »
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Closer Look at the McLaren F1 Car Rims

Closer Look at the McLaren F1 Car Rims Posted On 10 Jun 2015 By :...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Force India missed Mercedes latest engine upgrade

Force India missed Mercedes latest engine upgrade Posted On 10 Jun 2015...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Two teams excluded from ‘customer cars’ meeting in...

Two teams excluded from ‘customer cars' meeting in Montreal, it has...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Honda plans supplying F1 engines to multiple teams in...

Japanese engine manufacturer, Honda motorsport boss Yashusa Arai reveals...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Marco Bezzecchi reveals cause of ‘disappointing’...

Marco Bezzecchi revealed “braking more softly” may have been the...

German GP signs deal to remain on MotoGP calendar...

The organisers of the German GP have announced that the race will remain...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Ed Carpenter Racing to build new IndyCar headquarters...

Ed Carpenter Racing announced on Tuesday that it will begin building a...
23h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Alex Palou opens ‘all the options’ in Ganassi’s...

Alex Palou won his seventh IndyCar race of the season on Sunday,...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'Now been fully agreed' – Arsenal expert shares...

Arsenal expert Charles Watts has provided CaughtOffside with some...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal handed boost as academy graduate set to sign...

Arsenal have been handed a massive boost as Ethan Nwaneri is set to sign a...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'He's got the X-factor' - Paul Merson wants Arsenal to...

English pundit Paul Merson has urged Arsenal to sign Crystal Palace's...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Sources: Arsenal player has given the green light, La...

Sevilla are moving forward in their efforts to sign Karl Hein, with the...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.