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Verstappen incident a "perfect opportunity" for T-wing ban

Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner has renewed calls to ban T-wings after Max Verstappen hit the detached wing from Valtteri Bottas's Mercedes in Bahrain Grand Prix practice. Verstappen was limited to 18 laps of running in the Friday evening session at Sakhir due to the extensive damage to his car's floor after he went over the stray component. "I didn't expect it would cause that much damage," said Verstappen. "It smashed basically the floor." Horner has been a vocal critic of the small wings atop cars' engine covers since they began to appear in testing. Red Bull does not run a T-wing, and Horner believes incidents such as Bottas and Verstappen's show FIA...
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