Wolff highlights how regulations are being breached

Alfa Romeo can be proud of 2022 recovery

The curious case of McLaren in 2022

Reasons to be cheerful at Williams

Where do Mercedes stand right now?

No reason why Haas can't challenge higher up

Highlights from the Austrian Grand Prix

Ferrari will arguably be disappointed with first half of 2022

Toto Wolff maintains his belief that “some teams” have made car floors which are “clearly against the regulations” given how they ‘flex’ in certain places.

The FIA issued a new Technical Directive [TD] before the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that aims to clamp down on so-called ‘flexi-floors’, which is set to come into force at the Belgian Grand Prix in August having originally been pencilled in to begin at Paul Ricard this weekend.

Wolff feels this had previously been something of a grey area in the regulations – with teams theoretically able to find extra performance by a degree of ‘flex’ coming from underneath the car which, in turn, runs them closer to the ground, making better use of the ground-effect aerodynamics on the new generation of cars.

Mercedes team principal and CEO Wolff elaborated on how he thinks certain teams are breaching the current regulations.

“Some teams have skids that actually disappear when the car hits the bottom [of the ground],” Wolff told reporters, quoted by RacingNews365.

“The reason for skids is they are the limitation of how much [wear of the board] you can have. If the skid can disappear miraculously into the floor, that’s clearly against the regulations.

“Then the second thing is there is a plank that can deflect, or that basically also moves away more than the tolerance should be.

“The tolerance is one millimetre and if a plank moves away many more millimetres up into the car, obviously you gain