After having translated and studied in detail the new regulation concerning the ban on fins, we came up with the idea, now verified, that the fins could survive provided that they were faired.
Always curious to try to guess what the future could be, we took into account what happened a long time ago in F1 to arrive at the possibility of adjustable wings to provide exactly the desired downforce depending on this or that circuit.
Depending on the regulations, the issue came down to knowing whether the MotoGP Technical Director was only going to approve an external form of fairing, leaving the door open to all possible internal adjustments, or whether this also included integrated fins, in which case we could forget the adjustable ailerons…
We were going to try to get a response from Danny Aldridge himself when Mike webb, in an interview broadcast on the site MotoGP.com, seems to have solved the mystery: “It should look more like traditional fairings with smooth surfaces on the outside, but we left open what's inside the fairing. So all the little ducts, the aerodynamic veins and the other things inside, they can change them during the year, but they can only have one update from the outside during the year. »
So, if manufacturers and teams can change the number and inclination of the fins hidden behind the fairings, nothing stands in the way of adjustable fins that can be adjusted during the session.
Ducati has opened Pandora's box, and it is not about to be closed...
On the cover photo, we see a system used in F1 to straighten the curvature of a wing, but, in MotoGP, the first adjustments to the inclination of the rear wings of F1 cars could be more than sufficient.
