McLaren have been tipped to lose a key advantage amid a clampdown on flexi-wings ahead of this weekend’s F1 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chinese Grand Prix.

F1 teams will 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:face tougher tests aime🅰d at restricting the flexibility of rear winꩵgs, starting at the second round of the season in Shanghai this weekend.

F1’s governing body t♏he FIA had already announced they were clamping down on wing flexing for the 2025 season in response to the so-called✃ ‘mini-DRS’ controversy last year.

Stricter tests had already been introduced for the seas🅘on-opening Australian Grand Prix and the FIA has decided to bri📖ng in additional testing after observing the rear wings on cars in Melbourne last weekend.

All teams ꧂were inf🐼ormed of the incoming changes on Monday and were in compliance with the tests carried out in Australia, the FIA say.

According to former F1 driver Johnny Herbert, McLaren co♏uld stand to lose out the most from the clampdown.

“McLaren had a lot of issues with the rear wing fall🤪ing backwards,” Herbert told .

“It's a very thin edge at the back of the back of the wing, which is called the trailing edge and it's that that is obviously flexing around. What that does is the DRS flap goes from three millimeters🧸 and then it opens up to about 50 millimeters or whatever. There's a big gain.

“There's a gain with this, but it's probably, it's much, much smaller, but it's still a gain and it's a flex that I would presume everyb🎶ody's starting to work on, which goes back to what happened in Azerbaijan with Mc🐲Laren last year.

“It's popped its head before and this is a directive to stop that flex 🐻where there is a slight performance gain. It could be giving a kilometer gain, for example, and a kilometer is a kilometer, and if it's in a racing situation it's harder to pass something that's going one kilometer faster than you are because it's more efficient, it's ꦇless drag that it's creating.

“So it will go faster in a straight line than someone else would be able to potentially achieve, better than others, but there’s always going to be a team that all the other 🍒teams are going to be looking at, they’re always looking at each other and saying, well, they've got an advantage.

“If there is an advantage down the straight from this wing, they're gaining that advantage and that's what they will look into, an🦩d then they will have a word with the FIA, then the FIA will look into it, which is why the cameras were put on the cars in Australia. If they've deemed it to be an issue, they’ll tighten up that loophole, so to speak.”

McLaren doing a better job than rivals 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris claimed an impressive victory in treacherous wet conditions at Albert Park to kick-start his F1 title bid in perfect fashion, beating Red Bull's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen. 

That came after McLaren had dominated qu✨alifying and locked-out the front-row of the grid, backing up their pre-season title favourites tag📖. 

Herbert continued: “It did come up with McLaren l🌠ast season so it has been somet♚hing that has been looked at before but I think the FAA, with their checks they did in Australia, they've gone ‘OK we've given you 20 millimeters, we're now not going to give you anything.’

“Whenever you read the rules there's♑ never sup🤡posed to be any flexibility but you can't make anything completely and utterly rigid. It's impossible to do that. But what they can do is try and tighten up those little performance gains that are there.

“Does it make any difference to the show? Potentially it can because one team may be able to benefit more than another so the other teams will also try and close that loophole to stop that team from gaining an advantage with the car tha༺t is the one that is everyone is racing against and this time around it’s the McLaren.

“So it’s a typical situation. Other teams are trying to stop someone having an advantage over them, full stop. Is it the right thing? I don't have a problem with it being tiꦗghtened up.

“Are McLaren doing things that the other teams haven't done at the moment or are they pushing the limits? No, this is just part of what Formula 1 is al🗹ways about and they've done the better job.”

Further tough tests on front-wing fle🦩xing are set to be introduced from the Spanish Grand Prix, the ninth round of the 2025 season.