McLaren wants clarity from FIA on Ocon's wobbling wing

Andrea Stella says McLaren is determined to question the FIA on what the Canadian Grand Prix stewards "were thinking" with regard to the safety of the wobbling rear wing on Esteban Ocon's Alpine.

The integrity of the element on Ocon's car was called into question in the closing stages of the race in Montreal when a rearward facing camera on the Alpine showed the rear wing wobbling under load.

The oscillation was so extreme that Lando Norris who was involved in a close tussle with Ocon in the final part of the race radioed in to signal that the wing was a safety hazard.

F1's regulations state that it's a team's responsibility to decide whether a piece of bodywork or an element on a car is unsafe. After the race, Alpine made clear that it had no doubts in the structural integrity of the element despite the latter appearing dangerously precarious.

"It was extreme," Stella said straight after the race. "You need to know the construction of your car. You need to assess what's wrong.

"Then you need to wonder: would I have driven out my car and my component in this condition? It's very likely the answer is no, we didn't.

"So, I think here it becomes a sense of responsibility, which every team can interpret in a different way.

"I would like to hope that if the FIA delegate or the race director believe that it is simply just reasonable to think that that's dangerous, they intervene.

"We will certainly make a question as to what they were thinking in terms of how safe the situation was."

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Although the FIA's decision to transfer to the teams the responsibility of assessing whether a damaged car is safe to continue was approved by F1's outfits, including McLaren, Stella questions whether the teams should always have the last word on the matter.

"It's the team's call to say we should retire the car, or we should leave the car out," Stella added.

"I think it's a tricky one because teams, when you are in a competition, you have a conflict of interest in terms of the safety of everyone involved and maximising your result.

"This is a debate that will deserve more time and I'm sure that at the next sporting advisory committee, it will be raised again.

"Lando said a couple of times that it's not nice when you follow a car with a wobbling rear wing, and this may hit you and kind of nothing happens."

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