BMW to Run New Wings at France

BMW Sauber are to run a new Aero package from this weekends French Grand Prix, they have modified their flexing rear wing, have new McLaren like 'ears' and these stupid little 'vertical wings'


My problem with these vertical wings is not only do they look daft, but surely if you get what we had at Indy, ie. a barrel rolling BMW, aren't they going to break off and possibly twat the driver in the face?! And what of visiblity? They must restrict the already poor peripheral vision of the Driver.

I have to say that when I first saw the picture above, I thought someone had been playing about with Photoshop because it looks so stupid. One of BMW's drivers has even said that he didn't know what they are supposed to do, I'm guessing they are there to clean up the air before it hits the engine cover and driver.

McLaren are refusing to comment further on the departure of JPM, with some people saying that Montoya breached his contract by revealing his 2007 plans and some people saying that Chip Ganassi paid McLaren $3.5m to release him from his contract. I guess we'll never know, and to be honest, it doesn't really matter. Chip Ganassi has said that he expects to have Montoya driving in a few NASCAR Busch Series races later in the year.