{"id":675818,"date":"2026-07-06T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T00:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T00:05:18","slug":"british-grand-prix-max-verstappen-says-red-bull-rear-wing-failure-super-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675818\/","title":{"rendered":"British Grand Prix: Max Verstappen says Red Bull rear wing failure &#8216;super-dangerous&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen said the specific failures of the two incidents were not the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Different fault but same outcome,&#8221; he said. &#8220;While turning in, the rear wing is not fully attaching and you lose a lot of downforce and just spin off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dutchman, who finished a close second in Austria but was unhappy with the car throughout the weekend at Silverstone, also expressed his dissatisfaction with Red Bull&#8217;s performance this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He lies seventh in the championship, 103 points behind leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes, after nine races. He has retired from three of them because of problems with his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would be a very zen person to be optimistic at the moment with what happened again this weekend,&#8221; Verstappen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, but it&#8217;s just like that. I mean, I need a few days, I think, to reset and try again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone is trying their best. I&#8217;m not blaming one person or whatever. It&#8217;s just painful for everyone, you know, that this has happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to just finish races, first of all. That would be nice. At the moment, too many things go wrong. It&#8217;s as simple as that. Not even speaking about pace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies said: &#8220;He&#8217;s right not to be happy. It is very unpleasant for drivers to be let down by the car in the high-speed corners in two consecutive races, let it be for two different reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And it is in a much lower scale, also extremely unpleasant for us as a group to send our drivers to the gravel trap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have no doubt that as a team we will put in place what is necessary for that not to happen again, even if we failed to do that today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And we take that as seriously as one can do, and therefore the minimum that Max can achieve today is being unhappy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verstappen said the specific failures of the two incidents were not the same. &#8220;Different fault but same outcome,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-675818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}