Rear wing 2012 and 2013

[kartwheels]

Hi Guys,

Just asking for some direction actually, any chance there are any of you out there who will give detailed dimensions of an existing rear wing to 2012 and 2013 dimensions ? May be wrong but I believe the beam wing is banned for the 2013 season so would love to see a concept.

Cheers in advance

[Steven]

Rear wing regulations for 2013 are identical to those of the 2012 season, including beam wings, endplates etc etc

[stewilkinson]

Beam wings are banned in the 2014 regs from what I remember.

[FW17]

Ferrari and a few other teams seems to struggle a lot with DRS in qualifying.

I never understood the purpose of it rather than skewing the performance of some teams. Race pace and qualifying pace are to be representative.

Why cant Ferrari do something about this rule?

Prefer even 2 or 3 lap qualifying times rather than one just 1 for Q3

[MIKEY_!]

One article suggested that with the DRS open the diffuser stalls as well (on the ferrari at least) due to the altered airflow at the back of the car and reduced upwash. When DRS is available all the time (in quali) the time it takes for the diffuser flow to reattach is much more important than in the race where DRS is rarely available. The theory is that the ferrari diffuser flow does not reattach as quickly as other teams, causing instability under braking after a straight. Extra quali laps would not help them, if DRS was more limited in quali, things would improve for them. If beam wings were banned I'd expect this to become a problem for more teams.