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RED BULLTHIS reaction to HAMILTON's complaint about FLEXIBLE wings

Lewis Hamilton warned on Saturday at the Spanish Grand Prix that he has Red Bull flexible wings, but with the Red Bulls team they just wave away and suspect some other source.

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Ali Red Bull used flexible rear wings? This is as part of a racing weekend GP of Spain mentioned exactly Lewis Hamilton. The Milton Keynes team tested you on Friday High-Downforce hind wings, and on Saturday replaced this novelty with wings with less air resistance.

"Red Bull is very fast on the planes. At the rear of the car they have this flexible wing, which they installed on both cars today and with which they gained at least three tenths of a second,”Is Hamilton on Saturday night told colleagues from Sky Sports F1. Formula 1 teams have been trying to shift for a long time limits of aerodynamic elasticity. For if the hind wings on the planes on bend slightly back means that lower air resistance and consequently higher final speed.

Po Red Bullto this recruitment of Mercedes engine experts, Toto Wolff and Christian Horner now have another battlefield, the so-called flexible red bull wings.

However, it is FIA introduced in this regard strict regulationshow strongly the aerodynamic parts can bend during driving. Because of this at Red Bullu to this allegation flexible wings they look relaxed. “The race cars are of course intensively tested. There are different stress tests that wings have to pass, ” he said Christian horner, team boss Red Bullwhich emphasizes: "The FIA ​​is absolutely happy with the race car, which has passed all the tests, which are very strict."

That's why he was Horner surprised by the statement Hamilton, but suspects where he is the origin of this claim of his or reproach. “That’s something Toto once casually mentioned to me. I doubt it was Lewis' opinion here. It probably came from elsewhere.”Addressed to opinion Horner and about whether it is possible Hamilton even got instructions to mention it in the media, is Wolff just waved. “Yes, we talked about it, but I don’t want to comment on that anymore."                      

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