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AsiaPac · 19 mins ago

Verstappen reverts to old rear wing after successive crashes

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, July 16 : Red Bull have reverted to a conventional rear wing for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix after four-time world champion Max Verstappen suffered successive high-speed crashes in Austria and Britain.The Dutch driver slammed the behaviour of his car's wing at Silverstone as "super-dangerous" after he crashed out while chasing third place."We’ll go back to the old one and then see whenever the latest, or new one, is ready again to be used for us," he said at Spa-Francorchamps on Thursday.Ferrari, and then Red Bull, have caught eyes with a novel 'Macarena' rear wing that features a top flap rotating through 180 degrees in straight-line mode for more speed. McLaren have also been experimenting with something similar.Verstappen's team boss Laurent Mekies told the B
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