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🔧 Tech Show: Why didn't the flexi-wing directive shake up the order?
🕑 Added 2025-06-03 08:33:56 +0000 UTCWith the technical directive reducing the permitted flexibility of the front wings the big talking point of the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, why didn’t it shake up the competitive order as some hoped?
Former F1 technical director Gary Anderson explains that, and the reasons why he always expected the effects to be more subtle, as he looks back at the big technical stories from the Spanish Grand Prix weekend.
That includes a look at the steel skid block tests run in Friday practice and the potential impact of the change from titanium for selected races. And whether it makes sense to make such a change given the alternative means to reduce the chance of grass fires ignited by sparks.
Host Edd Straw also fires listener questions to Gary on a variety of topics, including active suspension, core versus surface tyre temperature and the Venturi effect.
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Connorpooler
Great episode again. One thing I haven’t seen many people discussing about the McLarens tyre thermal management advantage is how they set up their cambers. There were some photos out from Spain showing the dust build up of the cars in the pitlane and McLarens rear tyres appeared to have close to 0 camber with all the dust building up in the middle rather than inside edge like other cars. This would reduce the camber thrust down the straights putting less energy into the tyres but have a drawback in lateral grip mid corner which they could be mitigating by having more rear downforce. What are Gary’s thoughts on this topic ?
