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You also have a fair point, but if the team wanted to avoid macarena wing scrutiny, they shouldn't have told everyone that the wing had a problem twice. This has caused the FIA to look into it and possibly ban it: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/ferr ... ear-wings/clownfish wrote: ↑09 Jul 2026, 13:37Fair point, but teams don't always tell the whole truth.AR3-GP wrote: ↑08 Jul 2026, 19:27All of twitter, Youtube content creators, and elsewhere are saying "it looks closed", must be aerodynamic or driver issue, but the team clarified that it actually isn't closed fully in Austria or Silverstone. The issue is simply mechanical.
There's so many "creators" putting wrong information out on the internet to large audiences.
If their design is non-conventional and is quicker than a traditional wing, they aren't going to say "yeah actually there's a problem with it that makes it dangerous compared to the traditional type of wing" and get it banned.
https://www.autohebdo.fr/actualites/f1/ ... agner.htmlA Major Problem Is Looming in the Background
Finally, Waché points out a notable problem within the budget constraints. The technical director states that geopolitical conflicts are affecting the cost of materials used by the teams. In particular, the war in Ukraine and conflicts in the Middle East are said to have driven prices up significantly. “The rise in the cost of the materials we use has been very significant in recent months and difficult to predict,” says Waché. “The conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine have driven up the prices of certain materials that are also used in the production of weapons,” says the Frenchman.
According to Waché, inflation on some products has been extreme. This makes it harder for teams to stay within budget while continuing to develop the car. “Inflation on those products has exceeded two hundred percent,” he emphasizes. For Red Bull, this presents yet another complication in a season in which the team is already under pressure.
Yeah, like one on the X commenters say Van Haren wouldn't post it without their knowledge either, so they have an agenda with the image.
Agree, someone almost exactly where the camera view is located in that sitting area. Looks like a phone lens perspective, tipped down and low level (top leaning forwards) and short focal length typical of type. As a result the image displays diverging vertical perspective, with large spread of field/focus depth and both those attributes typical of imaging "fingerprint" like this in device used.
