Max Verstappen’s BritishGP hopes were wrecked by an AlphaTauri front wing endplate getting stuck under his floor, ruining his aerodynamics. F1 ⬇️
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, who showed reporters later on a photo of Verstappen in the post-race debrief holding the endplate, reckoned that the disruption to his car’s airflow was costing Verstappen about 20 percent of his peak downforce.“He was reporting, because it was so bad, that it felt like a puncture. But basically on lap 11, he hit a piece of debris which was an AlphaTauri part from an incident that they had.
Verstappen explained that he did not know during the race what the problem was, but realised quite quickly afterwards how bad his car had been affected when he inspected it in parc ferme. “Once I got into the lead and Carlos made a mistake, a few corners later in Turn 5, there was a piece a carbon.
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