F1 teams respond to FIA's impending clampdown on “rubbery nose boxes”

Governing body the FIA has issued a technical directive warning teams that it will🀅 be paying extra attention to the flexibility of bodywork on cars, particularly front and rear wings, starting from the next race in Singapore.
It comes amid suspicions in the paddock that some teams are bending article 3.2.2 of the technical regulations, which states tꦑhat “all aerodynamic components or bodywork influencing the car’s aerodynamic performance must be rigid🌺ly secured and immobile”.
It adds that parts “must uniform, solid, hard, continuous, imperv🔴ious surface under all circumstances.”
The technical directive is not thought to be aime🐻d at one team in particular.
Speaking during Friday’s team principals pre𒐪ss conference at the Italian Grand Prix, leading team bosses backed the FIA🦩's intervention.

"It's not something that affects us, but we've seen a few rubbery nose boxes, sh🐟all we say. So, we'll see those get addressed, I guess, in Singapore,” said Red Bull’s Christian Horner.
McLaren team pr♕incipal Andrea Stella commented: "The FIA, they have a lot of information, and they can see things that other🔯 teams can't see in terms of inspecting cars.
"They are very competent, so we 100% t🥀rust their judgement and their approach. And, if they thought that it was🐈 the time to release a technical directive, then it means that there is a reason for that.
"We're not very concerned about that, to be honest. So we take the posജitive that, if the FIA felt it was needed, it means that there is something to clamp down. And for us, I think it is good news.”
Meanwhile, Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur said: "We have to trust the FIA that if they consider that they have to do the TD, it is because the regulation was not clear enough. And we trust th﷽e FIA in this direction."

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