Laurent Mekies has not dominated out the potential for the Crimson Bull Racing group reviewing its rear wing idea after Max Verstappen suffered one other crash throughout the British Grand Prix weekend.
The four-time champion appeared to have masterfully salvaged what had appeared like a weekend slipping away from him and was heading in the right direction for a podium end, just for it to unravel throughout the closing levels of the race. Verstappen appeared to lose management of the RB22 on the high-speed Stowe nook on lap 48.
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The crash successfully ended his race as he was unable to get the beached automotive out of the gravel. Following the race, Verstappen pulled no punches in expressing his emotions concerning the automotive and its rear wing,describing it as “harmful” and noting that the crash might have been far worse at a circuit with much less run-off space.
Requested concerning the inverted rear wing and Verstappen’s frustration, Mekies didn’t dismiss the potential for the Milton Keynes-based group reverting to a extra typical rear wing strategy. Whereas he stopped wanting attributing the crash solely to the rear wing idea, the Crimson Bull group principal pressured that the group would go away no stone unturned in exploring its choices.
Max Verstappen’s RB22 within the aftemath of his crash on the British Grand Prix – Picture: Race Footage
Max Verstappen’s RB22 within the aftemath of his crash on the British Grand Prix – Picture: Race Footage
“The reply is that we are going to do no matter is critical to be on the protected aspect. So you could possibly return if in case you have raced fairly a number of races with that idea now. We have now races since Miami, I believe. So it has been a variety of races. So it is too early within the evaluation to ascertain whether or not it is a problem with the idea or one thing else. However we’re going for certain to go away no stone unturned in the case of it, and now we have all of the choices,” Mekies informed GPblog, amongst others, in Silverstone.
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It’s now two rear wing-related crashes for Verstappen in as many race weekends after the Dutch driver suffered the same destiny throughout the remaining spherical of qualifying on the Austrian Grand Prix.
Mekies: Verstappen proper to be sad
Mekies additionally admittedVerstappen was nicely inside his rights to be sad following his crash on the British Grand Prix. The 49-year-old group boss, reacting to Verstappen’s feedback, stated his driver had each cause for concern, including that it had been “disagreeable” for the group to “ship” certainly one of their drivers into the gravel as soon as once more.
“Look, he is proper to not be comfortable. It is extremely uncommon. It is extremely disagreeable for drivers to be let down by the automotive in excessive velocity corners in two consecutive races, let or not it’s for 2 completely different causes.”
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“And it’s in a a lot slower scale, additionally extraordinarily disagreeable for us as a bunch to ship our drivers to the gravel entice. So he is proper to be sad. I’ve little question that as a group we put in place what is critical for that to not occur once more, even when we failed to try this in the present day, and we take that as critically as one can do.”
