No adjustments will likely be made to entrance wing flex exams utilized in Components 1 regardless of 2024’s minor hubbub over flexing wings, based on FIA head of single-seater issues Nikolas Tombazis.
In response to a question made by Ferrari and Pink Bull in 2024 in regards to the flexibility of the entrance wings belonging to different groups, primarily McLaren and Mercedes, the FIA placed monitoring cameras on cars from the Belgian Grand Prix and beyond.
This was not with a view to altering the rules within the brief time period, however as a part of a fact-finding mission to find out what it ought to do with future iterations of the principles.
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Within the meantime, the FIA had declared that it had no problem with the McLaren and Mercedes wings; so long as they handed the flex exams, then the governing physique was comfortable.
However Tombazis defined that the distinction in loading between every entrance wing on the grid made it tough for the FIA to create a one-size-fits-all take a look at to clamp down on any exploitation of aeroelasticity.
“We’re fairly proud of what we have seen,” Tombazis defined in an unique interview with Autosport. “I hasten to say that it is not a query at all times of being comfortable or not.
“It is also a query of whether or not you are feeling {that a} significant take a look at might be made.

Ferrari SF-24 entrance wing element
Photograph by: Giorgio Piola
“One of many challenges within the entrance wing is that, in comparison with different components of the automobile, the entrance wing loading is rather more assorted between vehicles in a given location and so forth.
“So most exams relate to the load of a sure route, sure place of software, sure magnitude should not produce a [certain] deformation.
“Essentially the most profitable such exams imitate as a lot as potential what occurs in actual life with hundreds and, on the sooner wing for instance, it is moderately profitable. On the entrance wing, the range between vehicles would make that fairly tough.”
Tombazis added that there had been no adjustments to the entrance wing flex exams because the present rules had been launched in 2022 and, as a part of that, it was not going to vary tack for 2025.
Ferrari is already understood to have developed its own version of a flexing front wing over 2024, and that is additionally a chance afforded to Pink Bull if it has not already created its personal variant.
“Clearly, there was a variety of hoo-hah about it throughout the summer time and early autumn,” Tombazis added.
“We had made it fairly clear to groups since 2022 no less than, that we weren’t planning to introduce any additional exams on the entrance wing and we caught to that.”
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