Red Bull confirms findings on ‘super dangerous’ wing as Max Verstappen judges old design

Pink Bull Components 1 crew principal Laurent Mekies has confirmed his facet has a “repair” for its Macarena rear wing design forward of its anticipated return on the Hungarian Grand Prix. 

The Milton Keynes-based squad ditched its personal answer to the rotating rear wing idea initially pioneered by Ferrari following back-to-back high-speed crashes for Max Verstappen on the Austrian and British Grands Prix. 

Following a second consecutive failure at Silverstone, Verstappen branded the rear wing on Pink Bull’s RB22 automobile “tremendous harmful”. 

Pink Bull subsequently reverted to an older-spec, extra standard rear wing design for final weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. 

„It was mechanical, and it was two various things,“ Mekies defined of Pink Bull’s problematic rear wing after Sunday’s race at Spa-Francorchamps. 

„So two totally different mechanical points. We could have a repair for Budapest.”

Through the weekend in Belgium, Pink Bull technical director Pierre Wache mentioned the problems had been traced again to a mechanical downside with the design of the wing. 

“It is a mechanical downside that we noticed after the accident in Silverstone,” Wache mentioned. “We repair it. We are attempting to show that we’re bulletproof earlier than we placed on the automobile, and it needs to be prepared for Budapest.”

Wache insisted F1’s governing physique the FIA was happy with the usual of Pink Bull’s design. 

“We’ve proved it to them, what we have achieved,” the Frenchman added. “I feel it is on our facet that we make it cautious now. We do not wish to take any threat, and we wish to be 100% positive.”

Verstappen was requested about Pink Bull’s alternative rear wing after returning to the F1 podium with a third-place end at Spa. 

“You imply the previous rear wing? It carried out effectively. I saved it on the highway, which I feel is the very first thing,” he quipped. 

“We had been just a bit bit extra aggressive, and the stability was a bit bit higher. However we struggled extra on the onerous tyre, so simple as that.”

On Pink Bull’s possibilities in Budapest this weekend, Verstappen was cautious.

“In fact it’s good to be much less starved in Hungary, however I don’t know whether or not that’s good or unhealthy as a result of, on the finish of the day, there are a number of corners and also you want good cornering efficiency from the automobile, which makes it not possible to know the way good we’re going to be,” he mentioned.