Flexiwings 2025

[FNTC]

The Alpine rear wing still looks like its made out of plastic or something. Front and rear wings bouncing all over the place.

[AR3-GP]

Suspicion (with good evidence) that Mercedes had a stiffer rear wing in Imola.

[chrisc90]

There was some footage of the red bull one aswell from max behind the SC I believe

[Paa]

Suspicion (with good evidence) that Mercedes had a stiffer rear wing in Imola.

What would be the reason for this? Is it possible that FIA (non-publicly) warned the teams? Maybe they'll come down on rear wings as well in Barcelona?

[organic]

It's happened before that FIA has warned teams privately. The AMR front wing tightening was all done behind closed doors

[basti313]

Suspicion (with good evidence) that Mercedes had a stiffer rear wing in Imola.

What would be the reason for this? Is it possible that FIA (non-publicly) warned the teams? Maybe they'll come down on rear wings as well in Barcelona?

Does not really make sense. Test the stiff rear wing in FP1 would make sense...but why should they run it in the race? For Monaco they anyways use a different wing.
Would only make sense if they run out of spares for the old wing...but I do not remember crashes for Merc.

[Paa]

Suspicion (with good evidence) that Mercedes had a stiffer rear wing in Imola.

What would be the reason for this? Is it possible that FIA (non-publicly) warned the teams? Maybe they'll come down on rear wings as well in Barcelona?

Does not really make sense. Test the stiff rear wing in FP1 would make sense...but why should they run it in the race? For Monaco they anyways use a different wing.
Would only make sense if they run out of spares for the old wing...but I do not remember crashes for Merc.

It is possible that previous parts reached to the end of their life cycle and they did not want to manufacture new ones just for 1 race? Even if there is no crash, I assume there is a finite number of races for each part before they fail quality control. Even more so with flexiwings. I assume micro tear and damage accumulate over time.

[AR3-GP]

Antonelli said Mercedes was struggling with top speed in Imola.

[Luscion]

Stitched together a couple shots of Merc and Macca going down the bumps on the straight and riding the curbs, it aint much but its something, still trying to look for camera shots from the wing itself

https://imgur.com/a/AhhVWJC

[AR3-GP]

Snitched together a couple shots of Merc and Macca going down the bumps on the straight and riding the curbs, it aint much but its something, still trying to look for camera shots from the wing itself

https://imgur.com/a/AhhVWJC

This is brilliant. Mercedes front wing seems stiffer than the Mclaren one. I think that's why they lost a bit of top speed now (along with stiffening of rear wing). It's not a surprise. Stella said clearly that this was one of the intended outcomes of the flexible wings.

[SiLo]

I did notice that Antonellis camera during the race was stabilised, like the previous Mclaren footage we have seen. Then it switched to Red Bull and it wasn't. So I think it's just FOM looking to have better video footage from the rear of the car. It also helps to show how much the car is moving around too, which makes for more dynamic viewing.

[AR3-GP]

There doesn't seem to be much consensus on the matter, but I was looking at some footage of the Mclaren wing from last year, and it was the same as Imola this year. I don't think they have a spain compliant wing yet.

[ispano6]

The Alpine rear wing still looks like its made out of plastic or something. Front and rear wings bouncing all over the place.

Honestly I thought Alpine's is made of jello(gelatin) looking how jiggly it is. I've a lot of doubt that their top-10 qualifying performances are possible with their power unit - they likely will be hit the hardest with the TD.

[bluechris]

Mercedes and whoever else reduced the flexing already did the right thing because they will have more time to optimize the car till Barcelona. McLaren will land hard if they will change everything the last moment.

[Vanja #66]

only merc updated front wing and so had to update rear wing as well