Or investing in an insurance policybill shoe wrote: ↑29 Aug 2018, 14:54I doubt Merc is trying to intentionally use rear wing motion as a Tuned Mass Damper. In the recent post-Hungary test, they tried a rear wing with twin mount-posts, right? This shows they are interested in stopping the motion.
But yes the TMD ban is nearly impossible to police and I suspect it's being used somewhere on some car in a subtle way that involves relatively normal flexing rather than obvious TMD-looking things. The FIA can't stop parts from having mass and non-infinite stiffness.
But I agree the front of all the cars, especially the front wings are all flexing and moving etc. With todays computers and solid state gyro sensors it wouldn't be too hard to study the actions to harness any gains available.