Alpine, Has China F1 Flex make wing Twixes after test changes

Alpine And Haas has revealed that they need to change the wings behind their Formula 1 cars in light of the latest technical instructions that have tightened the flakes tests.

It is understood that four teams were influenced by the changing parameters of the rear wing flakes test for Chinese Grand Prix as the FIA ​​realized that a series of pre-seasons in the pre-season to tighten the tests for the Melbourne round did not go long away.

Prior to the season, a rule for technical rules was introduced, stating that, if the 75 kg vertical load is applied at any peak of the rear wing manplane, the slot gap should not change more than 2 mm.

It was Changed to China with a technical instructionAnd this limit was reduced by 0.5 mm. For Shanghai, it came up with 0.25 mm tolerance, which would be removed for the Japanese Grand Prix.

Alpine’s racing director Dave Greenwood admitted that the Neston Squad was one of the teams to ensure that the slot gap remained stable.

Greenwood did not wish to expand the nuances of changes in the wing, but appreciated the team for following the rules in such a short time.

Greenwood explained, “There is a change in that (technical instruction) at the end of this week, and we have complied with both opportunities.”

“We have to do some work in the factory to ensure that we were in the right place here, but I think it is quite common in these situations when an allowance of a rule and deflection changes, then you need to check that you are going to be able to follow it.

“There is a task that needs to go to ensure that it is obedient, but it has been done and we are there.

“I think you can imagine that Timescale was very small, so it’s not that you can do something revolutionary, but yes, there are things that we can do to ensure that we follow.”

Principal of the hospital Ayo Komatsu revealed that his squad was also partially affected by changes, saying “We may have to change a little how we set the wing, but design or nothing”.

McLaren It was denied that it was one of the teams affected by technical instructions, especially as a dress, last year was the largest proposer to use a slot gap to dump the slot gap displayed by ‘Mini -DRS’ in Baku in straight lines.

Engineering Technical Director Neil Holde said that the wing that the team experienced was already lower than the FIA ​​applied for China’s weekend.

“Fortunately, when we were tested in Melbourne and the number that the FIA ​​chose in the TD is more than the deflection we saw,” Holde said.

“It had no effect on us in this event, so performance should not be separated for us.”

When asked about the lower-downfores wing, run briefly in the Melbourne practice, he said: “I think we will be cured with that one. He is not done through the same process as is the high-dountion that we are running now.

“Hopefully we are not losing performance from TD again because we go further in the season.

“We will definitely struggle (if the team had to make changes in a week), so it is lucky that we were in a position that we were and they had no changes.

“I don’t know how other teams have managed it, but perhaps there are set-up changes that they are able to create that new components are not required, or perhaps they have to do something incredibly quickly to achieve it and become legal.”