{"id":534932,"date":"2026-03-12T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:09:09","slug":"ferrari-to-run-its-radical-upside-down-wing-at-chinese-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534932\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari to run its radical &#8216;upside-down&#8217; wing at Chinese GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari\u2019s innovative \u2018upside down\u2019 Formula 1 rear wing will appear at a 2026 race weekend for the first time at the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari grabbed the headlines in pre-season testing with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/ferrari-f1-radical-wing-active-aero-bahrain-test\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unique rear wing design<\/a> that appeared to rotate roughly 225 degrees clockwise.<\/p>\n<p>It caught the attention of both rival teams and the FIA (which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/f-what-happened-rivals-and-fia-on-ferraris-upside-down-rear-wing\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave its legality an &#8220;OK&#8221;<\/a>), but didn\u2019t appear at the Melbourne season opener.<\/p>\n<p>But Ferrari has brought the \u2018upside down\u2019 rear wing to this weekend&#8217;s Shanghai sprint event and will test it during the first (and only) practice session of the weekend on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It will then make a decision whether it stays on the car for sprint qualifying later that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely Shanghai, with its long back straight, was a more natural fit for the unique wing, than Melbourne, with its kinked high-speed long run from Turn 6 to Turn 9 &#8211; not the ideal place for a uniquely functioning rear wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari\u2019s innovative \u2018upside down\u2019 Formula 1 rear wing will appear at a 2026 race weekend for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-534932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}