kptaylor wrote: ↑26 Jun 2024, 17:08
SSJ4 wrote: ↑26 Jun 2024, 15:11
I hope so. Maybe a new iteration of flexi wing will arrive since the FIA have allowed it .
If I were Stroll Sr, I'd be asking why they were penalized but now it's suddenly okay...
Officially, they were never penalized. Saying that the problem they complained about was flexing is to over simplify it. It was more about using different materials to make the wing change shape at different speeds than just flexing.
The FIA has duly outlined four key design elements that it considers to be in breach of the technical rules, but suggests there may be other ideas at play that could be illegal as well.
They are:
1) Wing elements that can translate vertically, longitudinally or laterally relative to the bodywork that they are fixed to.
2) Wing elements that can rotate relative to the bodywork that they are fixed to, such as rotating around one fixing.
3) Designs that utilise elastomeric fillets, compliant sections of wing profile or thin flexible laminate at a junction that can either distort, deflect out of plane or twist to permit localised deflection relative to the bodywork the component is attached to.
4) Designs that utilise ‘soft’ trailing edges to wing elements to prevent ‘localised cracking’ as the result of component assembly deflection.