McLaren You’re going to have to make changes. You’re going to have to make them forcefully, after the complaints of rivals, from Red Bull especially when it comes to from the rear wing of your MCL38. What many call “mini DRS,” something that provides flex in the upper element of the low-drag rear wing to reduce resistance and thus increase speed on straight lines.
Even though it passed the FIA’s static load tests, rival teams They complained and McLaren accepted changing said element to reduce that flexibility. This is something that could mean they would lose any hypothetical advantage they had with this spoiler.
In Woking, they see it clearly, as Andrea Stella, their boss, says in words recorded in “Motor sport”: “The fact that there is so much attention paid to our rear wing is good news. It means that rivals do not focus on themselves.
“I keep telling my team to focus on themselves. When I see others paying so much attention to us, it means they are going to do their analysis and talk to the FIA.” They use this time to pursue something they are missing on the track.“For us, this is good news,” he insists.
In this sense, he talks about these changes in his spoiler: “It’s something transparent. We can do it. This will have no impact on performance.. And it gave us an opportunity to remind the FIA that we do our due diligence in terms of studying others. “We don’t want to spend time and energy on journalists who are creating stories.”
“We hope they will talk to other teams to solve fewer problems. They are less visible, but they certainly exist.” Stella continues.
And he adds: “Other cars exploit aerodynamic pressure in many ways. As we can see, some are very effective… but we trust the FIA.
