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[sucof]

I repeated so many times:
Why not allow flexible wings, instead of active aero??
Much less complex, much more reliable.
Just allow more flexing than is currently in the regs. But have an upper limit of course.

Because flexible wings can even come close to the amount of drag reduction active aero can.

This is just a guess, and is also false.

[sucof]

I repeated so many times:
Why not allow flexible wings, instead of active aero??
Much less complex, much more reliable.
Just allow more flexing than is currently in the regs. But have an upper limit of course.

More expensive and complex to develop and harder to police.

[dans79]

I repeated so many times:
Why not allow flexible wings, instead of active aero??
Much less complex, much more reliable.
Just allow more flexing than is currently in the regs. But have an upper limit of course.

Because flexible wings can even come close to the amount of drag reduction active aero can.

This is just a guess, and is also false.

Tell me how many degrees you think a wing would have to flex backwards, to nullify all the DF it generates in it's normal orientation. Now Compare that to a wing element that can flip to almost any orientation the team desires to nullify the DF it generates in it's normal orientation.

You are also forgetting extremely flexible wings would be a big problem on corners like 130R, Copse, Eau Rouge. Active aero doesn't have this issue because the driver has control of the wing elements.

[aberracus]

I repeated so many times:
Why not allow flexible wings, instead of active aero??
Much less complex, much more reliable.
Just allow more flexing than is currently in the regs. But have an upper limit of course.

More expensive and complex to develop and harder to police.

This video is excellent and proves the red bull problem is in its wing mechanism design. cheaper wing cheaper results

[Brahmal]

I'm sure I remember reading that the Ferrari drivers are closing the wing manually. I bet Red Bull aren't doing that which could also be causing some issues.

Afaik the RB wing issue is it does not close properly at some point which has nothing to do with automatic/manual control. Im more inclined to say, as others allude to, the mechanism itself is not robust due to excessive weight savings or similar

Correct me if I'm wrong, but both of these failures happened on high-speed corners. Aero loads can shift pretty dramatically under yaw conditions, so if RBR is closing their wing "late" into these corners that could be a contributing factor. I'm wondering if just closing their wing early on certain corners could solve their problem, as the system seems to work fine outside of this particular edge case.