Williams welcomes flexi wings clampdown

That is the view of team boss Frank Williams, who thinks that the FIA's move to toughen up the load tests on rear wings is the perfect response to the latest saga.

As autosport.com revealed earlier this week, the FIA is to introduce a new vertical load test from the Canadian Grand Prix in response to suspicions that Red Bull Racing's rear wing was flexing too much.

Williams told this week's Autosport: "To his credit (FIA technical delegate) Charlie Whiting has come down pretty hard on the matter.

"He's clearly understood what teams are doing to their bodywork and when people start taking it too far."

The latest controversy was prompted by on-board footage of Coulthard's RB3 at the Spanish Grand Prix, which showed the rear wing flexing down on the straight before popping back up under braking for the corners.

Although there was no official protest about the matter, rivals teams were unhappy about what they saw.

Toyota's Pascal Vasselon said: "The Red Bull wing was stupid because it was so visible. It was very nicely engineered because it passed the FIA test but you simply cannot get away with something that is so visible."

Red Bull Racing remain adamant that they were doing nothing wrong, however.

Team boss Christian Horner told Autosport: "Our car complies with the regulations. What makes people think it wasn't simply the camera mounting that was flexing?"