Ferrari to stay with its current front wing concept

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says the team plans to stick with its current front wing concept, despite Mercedes' form with a different sort of design.

When it was revealed at the start of the season which front wings Ferrari and Mercedes would deploy; there was much interest. The two wings are radically different, with Mercedes opting for a higher downforce solution and Ferrari preferring a design to help manage outwash for improved aero efficiency.

Ferrari endured a painful Spanish Grand Prix, and the team admitted that it may have got its concept wrong, due to how far the side have now fallen behind the dominant and imperious Mercedes team.

However, ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix (this weekend), team principal Binotto said that investigations the side have done recently have given new-founded confidence about the concept's design to the team.

"I thik we do not need to change our front wing," Binotto answered, when asked by Motorsport.com if they would go for a different solution. "Simply it is is a different concept to Mercedes, but it doesn't mean that we have achieved the maximum of its concept today. We are not foreseeing to change the wing concept.

"The Mercedes-style was checked at the start of our project so it is a comparison that we did at the start which was for one way of development. Certainly through the season you always try to double-check back what you did to see if it was the right choice, but we do not foresee a change right now."