Red Bull and Mercedes have been going at each other throughout the course of the 2021 F1 season. One of the talking points in their fight was about Mercedes’ rear wing, which Red Bull wanted the FIA to check whether it was within the sport’s regulations.

The Christian Horner-led team asked the governing body to do some tests on the rear wing. As a result, the FIA made a full-on investigation to check the rear wings of all the teams on the grid.

The FIA wants to do more tests on the rear wings for the 2022 season

The new tests on the rear wing weren’t to see if any breaches were made in the sport’s regulations, but to tighten the rules for the forthcoming season of Formula One

Nikolas Tombazis, F1’s head of single-seater, stated he didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. As quoted from Autosport, he said, “In Qatar, there was no monkey business identified, or anything like that. We didn’t find something that was concerning.

“It was not a bad test, but it can be improved. So we’re thinking how to maybe make some improvements to it for next year [2022], potentially.”

Tombazis noted that one of the difficulties that needed to be looked at was how the forces were applied to the primary plane in order to disclose any cunning aeroelasticity characteristics that teams might be using.

He added, “The reason the test is not so good is technically the trailing edge of the main plane is going quite upwards. If you load it in the downward direction, it’s quite stiff, so we want to manage to load it in a direction that is normal.”

“But then it’s a bit more difficult because we can’t use gravity. So we need to fine tune it, and it needs a bit more give to be prepared for it. It’s not impossible, of course,” he concluded.

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