Ferrari boss: Front wing tests to be 'gamechanger'

Ferrari squad main Fred Vasseur believes changes to beforehand helping flexibility tests astatine the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix could beryllium a "gamechanger" for each 10 Formula 1 teams.

After flexing bodywork became a constituent of contention wrong the athletics past year, the FIA confirmed successful January it would present much stringent load tests connected beforehand wings from the ninth circular of the play successful Spain.

Engineering a grade of flexibility into wings erstwhile they are nether aerodynamic load has the imaginable to connection show gains, either by reducing resistance astatine precocious velocity oregon changing the aerodynamic equilibrium of the car betwixt low-speed and high-speed corners.

The stricter static tests conducted by the FIA this play successful Spain are expected to necessitate each teams to modify their beforehand wings, and Vasseur believes that could effect successful changes successful the comparative show of cars.

"I deliberation Barcelona is connected the calendar of everybody successful the paddock with the caller regularisation for the beforehand wing," Vasseur said past play successful Monaco.

"At slightest we are moving connected it for ages present and this tin beryllium a gamechanger for everybody, due to the fact that we don't cognize the interaction connected each azygous squad of the caller regulation.

"We'll instrumentality to this [at Barcelona], beryllium focused connected this, to person the amended exploitation of the caller beforehand wing."

Mercedes squad brag Toto Wolff suggested Ferrari was exploiting flexible beforehand wings the slightest this year, but said it was inactive unclear if immoderate squad would basal to summation comparative to its competitors from the stricter tests.

"I deliberation what we person seen is that Ferrari was astir apt astir blimpish connected flexi-wings," Wolff said. "What it's going to bash connected the pecking bid is thing we request to look at.

"I'm not definite it volition [change the order], but different space of curiosity and I don't cognize however it's going to go."

Red Bull squad main Christian Horner believes the caller tests volition interaction each teams, but said it was hard to foretell whether it would bring astir a alteration successful the competitory order.

"We present caput backmost to immoderate higher velocity circuits, and of people the beforehand helping is fundamentally taxable to a regularisation change, and possibly that volition person zero interaction connected the moving bid but it's a alteration and it'll impact each teams," Horner said.

"Maybe neutrally, but determination volition beryllium an interaction from it. What we don't cognize is however it'll impact [each team]. It's a important change, and truthful of people there'll beryllium immoderate effect."