F1 with fenders! Ferrari is testing an ‘ugliness’ designed to improve drivers’ visibility in the rain

Already last year, the FIA ​​tried the first type of mudguards that Mercedes and McLaren put on their single-seaters in the British Silverstone tests.

Apparently, however, the test did not go very well, so they worked on a much more robust solution.

This time, Ferrari took part in the test, which has a circuit with irrigation at its disposal in Maranello. And since the young drivers Oliver Bearman and Arthur Leclerc (Charles’ younger brother) were to check the last package of improvements that the team wants to deploy for the upcoming Imola race during the filming day, the FIA ​​mudguard test was added to the older single-seaters. The test was behind “closed doors”, but the photographers of the Italian server Formu1a.uno chose a handy public place from which to photograph everything.

However, the X network is already debating whether fenders will really help. Will they be deployed during the race or will the Grand Prix always have to be interrupted?

But maybe one day we will see Max Verstappen turn into the movie František Souček from the General School and exclaim: “Where are my fenders?!”