Red Bull will not be delivering a special rear wing to the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, despite Max Verstappen signalling his desire to do so.<\/p>\n
Verstappen endured a difficult weekend at Monza 12 months ago, ending qualifying in seventh place.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman progressed to sixth on race day but was uncompetitive throughout the grand prix, crossing the line 37 seconds down on race winner Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n
Amid the challenging weekend, Verstappen called on Red Bull to design a special rear wing to aid the squad’s straight-line speed around the iconic Monza circuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t help here that we don\u2019t have a special Monza rear wing,\u201d Verstappen said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not ideal, considering the top speed. We never had that in the past years either, but then the car was good enough to compensate for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it\u2019s something we might have to do next year. Now the team has made a different choice and they\u2019d rather spend the money on something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Red Bull has no plans to unveil a Monza-spec rear wing and will instead adapt their low downforce package to maximise straight line speed.<\/p>\n
With a significant rule change for 2026 fast approaching and a tight budget cap to stick to, the team opted not to design such a unique component.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media including RacingNews365, Red Bull’s chief engineer Paul Monaghan stated: \u201cI expect you’ll see something similar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHere [at Zandvoort] you’re close to the biggest rear wing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Monza, you’ll be on the smallest so it will get turned upside down again, as will everybody.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you choose to make a dedicated Monza wing or take your low downforce and trim it, it achieves something similar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can argue about the efficiencies of it, but at the end of the day, we’ve got to balance our books by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people choose to make dedicated wings, that’s they’re choice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull will not be delivering a special rear wing to the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-116286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}