F1 teams are set to face in൲creased scrutiny of their rear wings at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.

Governing body the FIA has implemented a technical directive to clampdown on flexi-wings, with front wing checks coming in from the nওint🌳h round of the 2025 season in Spain.

Italian website has🔯 reported the FIA is set to ramp up the process with new measures coming into force at the first round in Melbourne.

Accordဣing to the report, the FIA’s technical office has sent the ꩵteams an official request for checks regarding the “visual control of the rear wings” to monitor deformation.

FIA cameras are set to be housed by teams to capture high definition footage of the rear wing through the monitoring of referꦯence stickers on specific locations.

This is aimedꦉ at ensuring teams are not circumventing the static checks that are already implemented.

Red Bull points finger at McLaren and Ferrari

It comes amid the backd𝐆rop of✅ a new row that is brewing over ‘mini-DRS’ suspicions.

Concerns were raised about the b♔ehaviour of some teams’ rear wings during pre-season testing in Bahrain last week.

Red Bull technical director Pierre Wac✤he accused McLaren and Ferrari of exploiting the regulations.

"It is still going on,” Wache t🀅old The Race. "I think Ferrari and McLaren are doing t🐲he mini-DRS stuff still."

McLaren came under the microscope in 2024 after r💛𒅌ivals complained about a ‘mini-DRS’ trick with their rear wing.

The reigning world champions made modifꦍications to the wing for subsequent races after Oscar Piastri’s victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix dre𓆉w attention. 

The FIA has already confirmed that stricter tests are going to be in🥃troduced from the Spa🤡nish Grand Prix in June.

Red Bull team princip🧜al Christian Horner raised 🍸questions over the timing of the checks. 

“The sl𓆏ight oddball about it is the timing of it,” he ꦍsaid. “Why race nine?

“It might have been bꦜetter to have addressed [it] during the off-season because [teams] end up doing two specs of wing [designs].”