A rubber Ferrari?

[Luc]

After the controversy of the flexing flap on the Ferrari rear wing we have a new Ferrari invention on the surface.

First of all, let's be honest (the FIA agrees with us) the flexible part on the rear wing is a infringement of the rules.
No aerodynamic part may move in relation to the sprung part of the car.
Ferrari did get away with it. (?)

Now in Imola, Patrick Head found out that the Ferrari barge boards sink about 4 centimeters lower to the ground at certain moments.
(4 centimeters is a lot when you know David Coulthard got banned for a 2mm too low rear corner of a front wing endplate in Brazil 00)
Seems the floor of the Ferrari flexes as well.
The whole story is explained because the floor has so much ballast that it flexes at certain moments and because the barge boards are attached to the floor, they flex and sink as well.

Remember the old wingcars....?
They had curved floors and skirts to seal of the flow underneath the car.
What do you think this flexing floor (due to the high weight of the ballast) with lowered barge boards imitates?
Exactly the wing car.

Amazing they get away with it, isn't it?

[jamesb]

so you haven't heard about the titanium floor support that change length as they get hot, curving the floor, or the shapeshifting defuser run by williams last year, or the.. no, too many examples.

Not just Ferrari, there are a lot of funky floors in f1