Sky Sports: Verstappen drove with the 'Perez rear wing' again in FP2
Where Max Verstappen 's DRS clattered in the first free practice session, that was no longer the case a few hours later. The rear wing looked very stable in the second free practice on the street circuit of Azerbaijan. Did Red Bull Racing fix the problem? Yes and no!
Verstappen drove with a different rear wing than teammate Sergio Perez. Red Bull is trying everything it can to make the car lighter, but this caused Verstappen to have problems with the DRS. In Spain the rear wing refused to open. The Austrian racing stable made adjustments to the 24-year-old driver's wing for this weekend in Baku, but then another problem arose: clattering.
Verstappen was the last driver to hit the tarmac during the second free practice session, as Red Bull's mechanics were still working hard on the rear of the RB18. Sky Sports' Nathalie Pinkham says the Milton Keynes-based formation has confirmed to them that Verstappen is now driving again with the same configuration as Perez.
Leak not quite above ground yet
So a definitive solution is not yet in place, but it seems Verstappen and Red Bull have opted for security. You certainly don't want to have problems with DRS in Azerbaijan. After all, the straight is more than two kilometers long.
The MAC doesn't need the DRS for the car to be fast to win races. He can win it on his own talents. If I'm not mistaken, that's what his stooges have always been trumpeting on many platforms to the whole world.
Off topic, other people having issues with the notifications being broken and giving a error 500?
Like they were ever gonna use a moving flexible wing. Tried it, failed... so back to the drawing board. Create a new design that your competitors don't frown upon but they will copy somewhere in the season and say that they were supposedly also testing that design "all winter".
You don't have to be a Sherlock to see what's happening, if FIA doesn't stop this shameless copying of RB by other teams it will continue all the season.
Welcome to the new (absurd) budget cap era of formula 1, it will get worse in 2 or 3 years time when the backmarkers copy the front running cars From the front wing to the rear wing
The tried making everything as light as possible but the one they tested on Max’s car during FP1 was just too flimsy that the mechanism couldn’t prevent the wing from flapping in the wind when the car was travelling at over 300kph, so they had to swap back to the older and heavier design.
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