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Is McLaren's Flexible Rear Wing Cheating?

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's been the talk of the town following Baku: McLarens rear wing. Is it Cheating? Is it clever engineering? Let's talk about it! Also in the topic list; Singapore build-up and Ricciardo's last race?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the WTF1 podcast it's your usual host

0:06.7

myself Hading goddess and James Koker and today we're going to be talking

0:10.4

everything that's happened between Baku and Singapore and also get us ready get us

0:16.1

hyped for the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend now I think the biggest news that's really

0:20.8

come out of Baku is the controversy, the uproar from certain

0:26.5

fans, potentially, you know, basically not McLaren fans about the McLaren and its rear wing and how it is flexing under pressure from high speeds

0:37.1

compressing yeah it's compressing and it's sort of allowing the car to have a small

0:43.0

dRS gap, kind of effectively giving them a mini dRS

0:46.7

down the start of finish straight and helping them stay ahead of cars

0:50.5

who they're under attack from. Now what's your opinion on this? Is this cheating from

0:55.2

McLaren or are they just very, very smart? Well first of all Hayden you brought this up

1:00.0

last episode and we said we were gonna get to it and then we ended up having such a long

1:04.2

episode we didn't get around to it. So you were you wanted to talk about it right away and I feel like you

1:10.6

were talking about it before it was even in headlines and other people are talking about it.

1:14.3

So you were ahead of the game in this.

1:17.0

So I need to give you credit for that.

1:18.6

I would say that, you know, speedy boy over here.

1:21.0

I'm always just faster than everybody clearly. You know I feel like

1:25.0

when it comes to bending the rules or interpreting the rules like this in

1:29.9

Formula One it's like the song from Beauty and the Beast.

1:34.2

It's a tale as old as time.

1:35.8

Yeah.

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