Robert Kubica is the first formula one personality to oppose plans for ‘proximity wings’ in 2011.<\/p>\n
After a meeting in Canada last weekend, teams agreed that drivers should next year be able to adjust their rear wings when they are following a car, in order to boost their chances of overtaking.<\/p>\n
“I think that could be quite exciting,” said FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh, insisting that drivers will not be able to use the straightline speed-boosting system to defend position.<\/p>\n
FOTA’s technical chairman Ross Brawn added: “It’s going to be an enhanced F-duct, where the car that is following will be allowed to reduce its drag to attack the car in front.<\/p>\n
“I think that will give a lot more opportunity for overtaking.”<\/p>\n
But Renault driver Kubica insists that grands prix have been exciting enough in 2010 without the radical innovation.<\/p>\n
“And secondly,” he told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, “why it is only now that people are noticing that overtaking is difficult?<\/p>\n
“I watched my first formula one race in 1997, and there was not much overtaking then,” noted the Pole.<\/p>\n
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