{"id":397098,"date":"2025-09-04T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397098\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:21:14","slug":"top-f1-teams-monza-spec-rear-wings-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397098\/","title":{"rendered":"Top F1 teams’ Monza-spec rear wings revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formula 1 teams have offered a first glimpse of their super low downforce Monza wings \u2013 with McLaren one of the teams bucking the trend and changing approach compared to 12 months ago.<\/p>\n

Despite having a sizeable advantage at the front of the field, McLaren has elected to bring a new rear wing to the Italian Grand Prix to better balance the competing demands of low drag for the straights and downforce for the corners.<\/p>\n

The revised wing features a small spoon section in the central section, which will shift it slightly more towards an increase in downforce than what it eventually ran with 12 months ago.<\/p>\n

However, it will likely gain both from potentially improved performance in the corners but also a slightly bigger DRS boost.<\/p>\n

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Last year, McLaren tried out varying downforce levels in practice, trying a super low-drag version, but in the end committed to run the same specification that it raced in the Belgian GP.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This change also comes with McLaren having last year used a wing that featured its controversial mini-DRS design \u2013 which helped boost straightline speed by opening up the slot gap at high-speeds.<\/p>\n

The idea was only cottoned on to rivals at the subsequent Azerbaijan GP and, following complaints made to the FIA, McLaren eventually agreed to make modifications to stop any flexing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ferrari has not made such a big change since last year, but is understood to have prepared two versions of its rear wing for Monza.<\/p>\n

One is identical to what it raced with in 2024, which itself was an evolution of the version that it raced with in 2023.<\/p>\n

But there is also believed to be a second, more aggressive concept that is trimmed much more to help reduce straightline speed even more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Red Bull appears to have adopted a more aggressive lower downforce specification this year compared to what it ran 12 months ago.<\/p>\n

At Monza in 2024, it introduced a bold wavy upper element that looked unique, but did not perform well. Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez had been left at the bottom of the speed traps in qualifying.<\/p>\n

With the team conceding after Las Vegas that it needed a new solution for low downforce tracks, it has arrived in Monza with the same low-downforce spec that it ran at Silverstone and Spa \u2013 although perhaps it will be trimmed out some more.<\/p>\n

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Mercedes has so far appeared with a rear wing that appears to be a development of what it ran 12 months ago.<\/p>\n

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The wing features some revisions around the tip area, even though the main plane element\u00a0looks unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 teams have offered a first glimpse of their super low downforce Monza wings \u2013 with McLaren…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145768254745111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}