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Flexi-floor controversy gives Aston Martin crucial ‘hint'

With some teams said to be exploiting a grey area in the rules to flex their floors, Mike Krack says that has given Aston Martin a 'hint' on how to curb their AMR22's porpoising. After last year's flexi-wings, Formula 1 was warned that flexi-floors could be this year's controversy given how important the floors are in ground effect aerodynamics. It finally came to the fore at the British Grand Prix. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff spoke of his 'surprise, more of a shocker' that some teams are suspected of exploiting an area at the rear of the plank and skid block under the floor. 'Nobody had an idea until the FIA brought it up in the last Technical Advisory Committee,” Wolff said to...
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