Toto Wolff has confirmed that Mercedes have been in constant “dialogue” 🌳with the FIA over their innovaꦫtive front wing design on the W15.

Since launching their all-new F1 challenger last week, the🐟 front wing on their car has attraওcted a lot of attention.

The front wing 🎀is under scrutiny because of how it will influence the airflow around the car.

The rules in 2022 were introduced to aid wheel-to-wheel racing, by reducing how muc✃h💃 turbulent wake the cars can produce.

It is understood that Mercedes’ new front wing wil🧸l create the ‘Y250 vortex’ which was a feature of the previous generation o༺f F1 cars, which struggled to follow other cars on track.

H🌺owever, speaking to the media during pre-season testing in Bahrain, Wolff addressed the legality of it.

“What📖's been put on a car is always following an exchange with the FIA, all through the process," Wolff explained.

"It's not such a thing where you have a clever idea and then you bolt it on to t🅰est and you think, 'That could be or couldn't be challenged'.

"That's a long process of dia☂logue that happens over the winter. I feel we're in an OK plac๊e."

After two difficult years, Mercedes have adopted a new car concept - while Red෴ Bull appear to be leaning towards what Mercedes chose in 2022/2023 - in a bid to achieve a "better platform".

"The truth is you don't know; every team follows their own development direction and is trying to generate lap tim✨e in the virtual world, in simulators and in the wind tunnel," W🥃olff added.

"And they're going to pu꧑t that on the car no matter what other teams do.

"We have gone back fro🐷m our zero-pod concept and some of the features because we felt it didn't help the car's perform🌃ance, and that's why we've gone to something that at first sight looks more conventional from the bodywork but we believe is a better platform."