McLaren did not respect the rules, the FIA did not do their job and Red Bull lost out, so says Pierre Wache.
McLaren failed to show respect for the rules and damaged Red Bull ’s Constructors’ Championship challenge with their “more than grey” area rear wing.technical director Pierre Wache, who took aim at McLaren’s ‘mini-DRS’ rear wing as the team go into the Abu Dhabi F1 2024 season finale looking to secure their first Constructors’ title since 1998.
With the rear wing lower and upper element seen parting slightly to dump drag down the straights, McLaren insisted the rear wing was legal but “proactively” offered to change it after talks with governing body the FIA.Claiming “what you want is a playing field the same for everybody”, as Red Bull “play with this playing field”, Wache continued to: “I think it’s so difficult to develop that I think some grey areas are so attractive as an engineer.
“When you have a radar camera between two points, the police can see you only at these two points and you can go at very high speed between, if you don’t have average speed . The technical regulations are different – you have to prove that you are correct. “We have to give the responsibility of the scrutineering to the FIA, it’s not my job to do it,” Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur explained in Singapore. “They have to do it, and we have to trust them honestly.
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