The Official Qatar Grand Prix Thread

Mercedes knows what Red Bull complained about at the FIA. "They are doing something similar to what we did until the race in Baku," team principal Christian Horner had indicated. On the Red Bull and some other cars in the field, the rear wing flap folded backwards from a certain load. At the instigation of Mercedes, the FIA introduced stricter rules for the flexibility of rear wing elements from the French GP. This forced six teams to stiffen their wings.



At Mercedes, the trick should work the other way around. In the visor is the main leaf of the wing. It allegedly deforms downwards and thus opens the rear wing gap more than allowed. From the outside, this is practically impossible to see, because the flap hides the lower element.



You have to know exactly where you have to look to recognize anything at all, it was said behind closed doors. As could be heard, a former Mercedes employee chatted. Verstappen was obviously well privy to this theory. When he inspected Hamilton's rear wing in the Parc Fermé, he pressed the lower, not the upper, element.