Mercedes says it may modify its controversial new front wing in order to avoid 'falling foul' of the FIA stewards before Mexico. F1
The Mercedes Formula 1 admits that it may avoid"falling foul" of the FIA stewards by modifying its controversial front wing before the Mexican GP.The team brought a single example of the new wing to Austin and declared it to the FIA as a new part, although the plan was always to wait until Mexico to run it on track.
"We brought the front wing here actually just freight-wise," said Elliott."It wasn't meant to run this weekend, we only bought one of them. So we've not got enough. The plan was to run it in the next race. "We'll decide whether we want to argue that one or not. It's actually not worth a huge amount. That detail looks interesting, but it's not the big thing on the front wing."
"I think if you look at the regulations, there's about 40-odd incidences in the regulations of 'sole purpose'. In this case, it doesn't say 'sole purpose', it says 'primary purpose'."So I think there's an argument to be had. Whether we want to have it as another question, if it's probably not worthwhile.""We'll decide what we do this week. We haven't really made up our minds.