Mekies: “Our Macarena wing designed before seeing the Ferrari one”

Red Bull returns to dance with the Macarena Already in the Silverstone test, Red Bull had attracted the attention of technical observers for the use of a rotating rear wing, which immediately evoked the one first tested by Ferrari already in the winter tests in Barcelona. And in Miami both Ferrari and Red Bull presented themselves with the ‘Macarena’ wing, although functioning in a slightly different way in the rotation, but with the same final objective: to reduce resistance to progress and gain a few km/h on the straights. The second place in qualifying of Max Verstappen’s RB22 was a clear sign of discontinuity compared to the three races and reassured Red Bull on the soundness of the path taken. But the Red Bull ‘Macarena’ is not a copy of the Ferrari one. Laurent Mekies wanted to defend Red Bull’s work, underlining to Sky Deutschland that his team certainly did not copy Ferrari: “What I can say with certainty is that our guys designed the wing without ever having seen the Ferrari one before. Therefore it cannot be said who thought of it first. We invented it ourselves, regardless of what the others did. We had this idea already at the end of last year. year and that’s when we started working on it.” Overall on the updates Mekies explained: “The team did a fantastic job. After Japan we knew we had a lot of work to do to understand the problems we were having. We completely renewed the car. We don’t think we’ve solved everything but we’re going in the right direction.”

Automobile Magazine – F1 English News
2026-05-03 21:00:00