The FIA’s Jo Bauer on Sunday eased a burgeoning controversy about flexible front wings.<\/p>\n
Before the German grand prix, team boss Christian Horner fended off new rumours about Red Bull’s front wing – the one infamously switched between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel at Silverstone two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Both RB6s wore the new wing specification throughout the Hockenheim weekend, where photographs of its extremities bending towards the ground did the rounds in rival team garages.<\/p>\n
In-car video footage of the Red Bull appeared to support the claims, while the photographs also depicted a bending wing on the Ferrari.<\/p>\n
“On the pictures I was shown this morning, I – nor our engineers – can explain what … it looks unusual,” McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh said.<\/p>\n
But shortly after Sunday’s race, FIA technical delegate Bauer issued a statement saying the Red Bull and Ferrari wings had passed rules tests.<\/p>\n
Whitmarsh suggested that, if legal, the other teams will be looking into copying the front wing solution.<\/p>\n
“If it is (achieved) by some clever and legitimate way, then we need to learn it very quickly,” said the Briton.<\/p>\n
But like Horner, Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali denied that the photographs are evidence of illegal flexing.<\/p>\n
“I feel it is part of the pressure, part of the game,” said the Italian.<\/p>\n
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