Pink Bull have questioned why the FIA have determined to delay the introduction of stricter F1 entrance wing exams for the 2025 season.
Final month it emerged that F1’s governing physique the FIA was implementing new load exams to make sure flexible entrance and rear wings are not a speaking level this season, after the topic turned a subject of controversy final yr.
Whereas the scope of rear wing exams will likely be elevated from subsequent month’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix, extra stringent entrance wing exams are usually not set to come back into power till the Spanish Grand Prix, the ninth spherical of the season in June.
Flexi-wings proved to be an space of competition through the second half of 2024 when McLaren have been pressured to change their rear wing after rivals Pink Bull and Ferrari questioned its legality.
Though Pink Bull crew principal Christian Horner is happy to see the subject addressed, he nonetheless has a burning query on the matter.
“I feel it’s good that they’ve addressed it. Clearly there’s been a change and a tidy as much as the rear wing,” Horner instructed media together with Crash.web at F1’s season launch occasion at London’s O2 Enviornment.
“The entrance wing will get modified at race 9. Why 9? I don’t know, however it’s what it’s. It’s the identical for everybody.
“It simply implies that you’ve obtained a pre-race 9 and a post-race 9 set of points to cope with, which inevitably will drive value.”
Ferrari glad to see ‘readability’ on F1 flexi-wing saga
Ferrari crew boss Fred Vasseur is glad to see the FIA make clear the state of affairs forward of the brand new marketing campaign.
“For me, it’s not a difficulty,” Vasseur mentioned. “I feel it’s good to have readability. An important for me is to know that we now have to alter one thing on the entrance wing by Barcelona, for instance.
“You may focus on in regards to the timing as a result of it’s the week after Monaco and we have to come to Monaco with a full bundle of entrance wing. However on the finish of the day, it’s good for us, it’s good for the event and [planning] to know when we now have to convey one thing.
“The worst-case state of affairs can be to begin the season like we’re at the moment and in two races to come back with a TD to alter one thing as a result of it’s rather more tough to plan and on this case, it could have been a large number.
“However actually, everyone knows the state of affairs. We have been all planning to convey an improve on the entrance wing through the season and like this, we all know that we’ll must do it again in Barcelona.”
