Talk of better management of dirty air, of limiting designers' ability to generate outwash, and prioritising closer racing is the intention, but there is still a lot of... read more »

The design centres around how the flaps connect to the endplate and how that can be used to amplify the outwash effect that's being generated.This is something that the... read more »

As F1 teams have fully understood the new ground-effect regulations, they have found ways to increase the downforce and better manipulate outwash to improve their... read more »

The phenomenon of boiling, twisting vortices being generated by winged F1 machines has been an issue through the generations.But in the championship's moves to improve its... read more »

FIA’s Single Seater Director Nikolas Tombazis believes that the issue of Formula 1cars struggling to follow each other in racing conditions “won’t get much worse” next season.... read more »

F1's move to the current ground-effect rules set in 2022 was prompted by a desire to allow cars to follow much closer to each other.  One of the core features of the... read more »

Alpine A523 front wing detailPhoto by: Giorgio PiolaAlpine followed-up on the introduction of a new front wing architecture at Silverstone with a fresh upper flap design in... read more »

As expected, given the propensity for teams to do so, the main changes are made in the outer portion, altering how the flaps and endplate interact in order to improve the... read more »

Factors that had limited this in the past were viewed as the outwash - the flow of air coming from the trailing edge of a wing - generated by the front wing, plus the various... read more »

The Maranello-based outfit raised some eyebrows when the front wing of its 2023 challenger featured the very same slot gap separator trick concept that Mercedes had been told... read more »

The FIA insisted on a more stringent layout, in order to prevent any elaborate concepts that might erode the foundations for good racing upon which the regulations had been... read more »

The new design appears to be influenced by those already seen elsewhere, whereby the outermost mirror stay (red arrow) acts as a flow conditioner that helps to reinforce the... read more »

For the 2020 Formula 1 season Mercedes’ engineers at Brackley have worked hard, under the guidance of technical boss James Allison, to increase the aerodynamic efficiency of... read more »

We take a quick look at the 2019 front wing designs from Williams, Force India and Red Bull. All teams have been testing a simplified front wing design to help aid overtaking... read more »