Overview
- Max Verstappen suffered a rear-wing-related spin at Silverstone last weekend after a separate rear-wing problem in Austria the previous weekend, and he called the repeats "super dangerous."
- Red Bull has opened a full internal investigation and says it will "leave no stone unturned," with team chiefs saying they may revert to a conventional rear wing for the Belgian Grand Prix if the fault cannot be eliminated.
- The FIA has begun safety discussions with Red Bull and Ferrari to assess whether the revolving upper-flap designs and their fail-safes meet rules that require a failed system to return to corner mode quickly.
- The concepts differ by design: Red Bull's upper flap rotates about 160 degrees in the opposite direction to Ferrari's much larger rotation, and early signs suggest the two failures were caused by different faults; other teams such as McLaren have deferred running similar devices.
- The dispute forces a clear trade-off between the wings' low-drag performance benefit at energy‑sensitive tracks like Spa and immediate driver safety, raising the prospect of short-term operational rollbacks or longer-term technical restrictions.