McLaren Testing Radical Front Wing

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Radical upper-wing element design being tested in Barcelona today

[Big Ben]

First of all, it's hideous. Anyway I hope it will bring some good results.

How far will they let them goo with all those wings? I just hate them. My opinion: they should just forbid them all except the front end and rear wing.

[Garry Walker]

Anyway I hope it will bring some good results.

I dont. LOL

[ioan]

Radical upper-wing element design being tested in Barcelona today

I wonder how much it flexes!

[BobGarage]

not really that radical.

a.j. foyt ran a wing along the same idea in the USAC champ Cars in 1978!

[Viktory]

I wonder how much it flexes!

First thing I thought when I saw it

[blakebeatty]

not really that radical.

right, the mammoth tusk BMW Williams wing was radical, this this is just a slight tweak on the wing that everyone runs, it's a variation of the williams wing of today.

interesting design post-adrian-newey ...

[Hawkmoon]

First of all, it's hideous. Anyway I hope it will bring some good results.

How far will they let them goo with all those wings? I just hate them. My opinion: they should just forbid them all except the front end and rear wing.

I agree. Except for the results part, ofcourse.

I think there's a point where the FIA will have to say enough is enough. If aerodynamic developments continue to make the cars a handful in anything other than clean air then they will have to be banned.

I don't know what effect this wing element will have on the McLaren. If it proved to make the car even more reliant on clean air then it should be banned now as sooner or later the other teams will copy it and the effect on the racing will be negative.

[DimitraF1]

this is a ''lets hope it works'' idea like bmw sauber last year , and the side tower wings back in 1998..hopeless moves!!!

[Gannex]

I think there's a point where the FIA will have to say enough is enough.

Whatever happened to the FIA proposal that total downforce be limited to a given number of Newtons? It was a brilliant idea, I thought, and the FIA had devised an elegant method of enforcement -- simply putting a scraper board under the car which only touched the track surface when the maximum permitted amount of weight was applied. Why was that proposal never adopted? It would have stopped the "downforce war" dead in its tracks.