Purple Bull F1 group boss Laurent Mequise has confirmed that the group has “revised” the design of the Macarena’s rear wing forward of its anticipated return on the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The Milton Keynes-based group has ditched its personal answer to Ferrari’s proprietary rotating rear wing idea after Max Verstappen’s back-to-back high-speed crashes on the Austrian and British Grand Prix.
Verstappen branded Purple Bull’s RB22 automobile’s rear wing “tremendous harmful” after failing for the second 12 months in a row at Silverstone.
Verstappen crashes in entrance of Landstand
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Purple Bull then reverted to the older, extra typical rear wing design for final weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.
“It was mechanical, it was two various things,” Mekies defined of Purple Bull’s problematic rear wing after Sunday’s race at Spa-Francorchamps.
“So we had two totally different mechanical points, which we plan to repair in Budapest.”
Over the weekend in Belgium, Purple Bull technical director Pierre Wash mentioned the issue was traced again to a mechanical subject with the wing design.
“This can be a mechanical downside found after the Silverstone accident,” Mr Wache mentioned. “We’ll repair it. We will show it is bulletproof earlier than we put it on the automobile. Then we’ll be prepared for Budapest.”
Mr Watche insisted F1’s governing physique, the FIA, was happy with Purple Bull’s design requirements.
“We proved to them what we’ve performed,” added the Frenchman. “I feel it is on our aspect to be cautious now. We do not wish to take any dangers and we wish to be 100% certain.”
Verstappen completed third at Spa
After Verstappen returned to the F1 podium with a third-place end at Spa, he was requested about Purple Bull’s substitute rear wing.
“You imply the outdated rear wing? It carried out nicely. I stored it on the highway. I feel that is the primary factor,” he mentioned jokingly.
“We have been a little bit bit extra aggressive, a little bit bit higher balanced, however we struggled extra on the arduous tires, easy as that.”
Verstappen was cautious about Purple Bull’s probabilities in Budapest this weekend.
“After all it is good to be much less hungry in Hungary, however I do not know if that is good or dangerous, as a result of in any case there are a variety of corners and the automobile wants good cornering efficiency, so we do not know the way nicely we’ll do,” he mentioned.
