Interesting point about the mirrors.
Idea - get rid of them! Why so? Well, without mirrors the guy in front cannot make a block and the guy behind knows the guy in front can't see him so has to make allowances for that fact when positioning his car. If you consider weaving on the straights - with mirrors you can make a well timed chop, but without them you risk involving yourself and anyone around you in having a huge crash - IMHO people won't weave down the straight if they can't see where the other fellow is.
The other suggestion mooted - dramatically limit the wing and get rid of appendages will certainly be better than now. To me, the downwash (hate the term) wing actually tries to take it a step further and create an environment where cars can run even closer together.
It's plan view behaviour is exactly what I started asking about way back at the start of this thread. The air off the wheels is turbulent now (so is the air directly behind the car). With the CDG wing there is smoother air behind the car, even if the air behind the tyres/cdg wings does extend across the car a bit - it must be smoother than now and surely is not much different to stripping wings off the cars alltogether - if you want less turbulence than that you need closed wheels.
What happens behind the tyres? I can envisage the the cdg wing
could actually clean up the flow leaving the rear tyre - although the downforce produced will be pretty miserable.
Could it be that the FIA have produced the germ of an idea that dramatically cuts downforce and lets cars run closer together?
If there is any conspiracy - maybe they are selling the idea as a way to let cars follow closely, when really they are getting a big cut in downforce and speed