Formula 1: Mercedes’ DRS-Enabled Front Wing F-Duct Has Competitors in a Flap

It wouldn’t be the start of a Formula One season without some controversy over a clever bit of technology designed to make cars go faster. This year it’s Mercedes GP in the spotlight with their tricky duct system that seems to work like an F-duct for the front wing. F1 engineers are devilishly clever. Give them a set of clearly defined rules to work with and they’ll find an ingenious way to get around them in ways that the drafters of those rules would never have thought of. In 2009 we had the Brawn-designed double diffuser. In 2010 we had McLaren’s F-duct and Red Bull’s refined blown diffuser. They were all quickly imitated, but not until they were the subject of rigorous protest from their competitors. The FI...

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