New flexing Ferrari wings
Nine of the eleven F1 teams have told the FIA this morning that they intend to make a protest against Ferrari's rear wing after the Malaysian GP. Ferrari announced that they will use a new rear wing in Australia. The other teams won't protest if the FIA can garantuee that the new rear wing will be in accordance with the regulations.
Apart from the supposedly illegal rear wing, there is also been going on a lot about the flexing of their double plane front wing.
Although being found legal by the FIA, it is an interesting principle not discovered by Honda who are also using a double planed front wing. The idea is that the front wing flexes down at high speeds. Nothing new you would think, as all front wings bend down under the air pressure at high speeds, but Ferrari allow so even with a second plane on the wing. It is beneficial to have the wing's ends bend down, since a low-to-the-ground wing generates downforce by low pressure under the wing (like a diffuser).
While at Honda the upper plane is fixed to the nose cone and therefore preventing flexing, at Ferrari that is done with a pin that only prevents the upper plane from moving vertically. Any movement parallel to the ground is possible.
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