Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies says the team is open to potentially removing the ‘Macarena’ rear wing from its car after Max Verstappen’s British GP crash. 

In the closing stages at Silverstone, Verstappen spun off at Stowe after an issue with his rear wing not properly re-attaching the airflow in time, in a similar occurrence to what happened during the Austrian GP qualifying. 

Verstappen called the Silverstone incident “super dangerous” as Mekies explained that it was a different problem to what happened during Red Bull’s home race, and that the team “will do whatever is necessary” to solve the issue – including potentially removing the Macarena rear wing, which was introduced in Miami. 

“Max is right not to be happy; it is very unpleasant for drivers to be let down by the car in high-speed corners in two consecutive races,” Mekies told media, including RacingNews365.

“It is for two different reasons, and on a much smaller scale, it is also extremely unpleasant for us as a group to send our drivers to the gravel trap, so he is right to be unhappy. 

“I have no doubt that the team will put in place what is necessary for that not to happen again, even if we failed to do that [on Sunday], and we take safety [as seriously] as one can do, and therefore the minimum Max can feel today is being unhappy. 

“We certainly understand what happened at the Red Bull Ring, we won’t go into the details because I don’t think it will be right, but we understand the failure. 

“From the early analysis, we have suffered a different type of failure, and it doesn’t make it better, but we are going to review to make sure we leave zero chance. 

“We will do whatever is necessary to be on the safe side.”

When then asked if the team could go back to an older rear wing concept, without the Macarena opening, Mekies indicated that this was a possibility.

“We have raced quite a few races now with that concept, and it is too early in the analysis to establish whether it is an issue with the concept, but we are going to leave no stone unturned when it comes and all options [are possible]”