F1 teams to use flexible skins

Ferrari technical boss Ross Brawn insists that the performance of the 248F1 has not been affected in any way by the new wing rules that prevent flexible wings, even if their times were somewhat slower than normal, the team’s technical director claiming it was a tire issue that kept them down the grid in 15th and 22nd.

"I think over this weekend once we get on top of the tire situation you’ll see that the results are not discernible. We will have to optimize the wing, but in the time we had, which was a week before we left to come here, we did what had to do what we could," he explained. "Around Imola time we offered to do it, and wrote a regulation and offered it to all the teams, and at the working group meeting that happened around then, nobody wanted to do it, which I found quite amusing, given that there was so much controversy. Then a week before Canada the FIA came along and asked us to do it. I don’t really know what’s gone on. It was a solution to stop all the bickering. Maybe they thought it was too good to be true. There were two options; one was to not have any constraints, and have everyone know where they are, and one was to put the brackets on the wing that we have now."

But, according to Brawn, this will not solve the issue anyway as there is already talk of teams having ‘flexible skins on the wings’ …

“With the brackets fixed, the skin can suck down and change the profile of the wing, so it doesn’t stop," he said.