Former Haas F1 team principal🃏 Guenther Steiner believes complaints about McLaren’s flexible front wing only backfired following their 1-2 finish at the Spanish Grand Prix.

For Barcelona, the FIA’s long-awaited stricter F1 front wing tests were introduced.

Ahead of the 2025 F1 season, F1’s governing body announced that more stringent testing would be conducted following concerns about the flexibility 🔯of teams’ front wings.

Red Bull, in🍌 particular, were hopeful that the clampdown on flexi-wings would impact McLaren’s strong start to the year.

However, after qua💜lifying, it appeared that the changes had zero impact on McLaren’s level of competitiveness.

McLaren locked out the fr𒅌ont row and con🧜verted it into their third 1-2 finish of the year.

The order at the f🌳ront 🔜of the field remained relatively stable.

McLaren maintained their a൲dvanꦑtage over Red Bull, with Mercedes and Ferrari close behind.

The flexi-wing clampdown did result in criticism from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who branded it as a waste of money.

Speaking on the The Red Flags podcast, Steiner batted ♓away Hamilton’s comments while slamming McLaren’s rivals for giving them an advantage.

“This flexi wing, it’s the same for everyone.💙 I think Lewis came 🎃out with the comment that all this money was wasted on doing this and stuff like this. There was no money wasted,” Steiner said.

“Everybody went in t༒o develop this one, because you have to make sure that your wing is not flexing. I read somewhere that McLaren, they just put an🍷 additional bracket on the wing so it doesn’t bend this much anymore.

“So it was a very cheap fix to get rid of this flexi wing, and part of it was the complaining of the other teams. They complained, but what did they g🐻ain? Nothing. They gave the McLaren more advantage.”

Steiner praises McLaren’s understanding

Since introducing a significant upgrade at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix, McLaren haven’t looke꧃d back.

That upgrade package transformed their car f🔯rom midfield strugglers to regular podium conte♋nders.

In 💯2024, they secured their first constructors’ title in 25 years, beating Ferrari by just 14 points.

They’re now on co🐲urse for another constructors’ cro🐭wn in 2025.

McLaren are already nearly 200 points ahead of Ferrari in seconജd.

Steiner has praised Mc𒐪Laren for how they’ve dealt with the flexi-wing changes.

“McLaren knows exactly what they need to d𝓀o with the car,” Steiner added.

“If the🀅y lose the flexi wing or the effect the flexi wing gives them, they go to the wind tunnel and try to replicate what they had to get the same balance on the car again, you know.

“And maybe you cannot 𝓀get 100% there, bu💞t you get 99.8% there.”