organic wrote: ↑30 Apr 2025, 12:33
_cerber1 wrote: ↑30 Apr 2025, 12:32
Rikhart wrote: ↑30 Apr 2025, 11:37
I don't understand why the FIA don't just measure this during competition, maybe with some laser measuring tools in each car? I would be absolutely trivial to do, and would destroy this game of "hey, it's legal, it passed the test" and then you see massive, clearly not following rules movement on surfaces.
And what tools have you given the teams to prohibit them from doing this? Don't forget that in a wind tunnel they use a scale model and a limited air flow speed. How do you propose that they control their elements at 300+ km/h?
Personally, I don't understand why anyone doesn't like flexible wings, before this was justified by the fact that the teams' budgets were unlimited, which would make them spend even more, now everything is limited, leave them alone.
I think most people have an issue with the unclear, constantly shifting flexibility requirements laid out by the FIA. The FIA/FOM weaponize the greyness of the flex rules to influence the championship as they see fit
The problem for most people is that FIA let this FlexiF1 continues. For some unknown reason we have see this trend from some teams more than a year and FIA reacts pretty slow, isnt that strange? When AM did that they swift cutted their wings sort of speach but now they dont to the others. They could had said "do whatever you like" but they dont say that and instead say that the will punish it but who ever did this from last year, continues to has huge gains till now. The rest teams dont have the money to invest in this now with the 2026 changes so whoever did this continues to benefit from it.
As this discussion in the mean time goes on, FIA hasnt touched at all the rear wing structure that falls back... which is crazy gain IMO.
