The team has parked the rotating design it introduced in Miami and returned to the previous specification used at the start of the season while modifications are developed at its Milton Keynes factory.
“We’ll go back on the old one and see when the latest one is ready again to be used,” Verstappen confirmed at Spa on Thursday.
Red Bull’s newer concept featured an upper element that rotates as the car switches between straight and corner modes under Formula 1’s active aerodynamic regulations.
The design is similar to Ferrari’s ‘Macarena’ rear wing, although the two teams use different mechanisms.
Problems emerged during qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix when Verstappen suffered a heavy crash after the rear wing failed to return to its intended position.
A separate failure produced the same outcome during the British Grand Prix one week later, with the RB22 snapping away from Verstappen at Stowe and sending him into the gravel with four laps remaining.
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“Like Austria, a different fault but the same outcome,” Verstappen said after the British Grand Prix.
“So again, while turning into the corner, the rear wing is not fully attaching and you lose a lot of downforce for that.
“At that point, it’s super dangerous because you can really hurt yourself two times.
“I was lucky in Austria, I was lucky here, but that’s why you get really fed up with it.”
The Silverstone retirement cost Verstappen a possible podium finish and continued a difficult start to the new regulatory era for Red Bull.
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies accepted Verstappen’s frustration following the latest incident and promised the team would investigate every part of the system.
“Look, he’s right not to be happy,” Mekies said after Silverstone.
“It is very unpleasant for drivers to be let down by the car in high-speed corners in two consecutive races, let it be for two different reasons.
“So he’s right to be unhappy. I have no doubt that, as a team, we will put in place what is necessary for that not to happen again, even if we failed to do that today.”
The decision to remove the design comes ahead of a demanding weekend for the active aero system at Spa-Francorchamps, where five straight mode zones will be used.
One is positioned on the run from La Source towards Eau Rouge, although straight mode will be unavailable through Eau Rouge and Raidillon themselves.
Further zones will operate along the Kemmel Straight, after Stavelot and between Blanchimont and the Bus Stop chicane.
Red Bull is still expected to return to its rotating wing once modifications have been completed, rather than abandon the concept permanently.
Ferrari continues to use its own version without issue, while McLaren has yet to run its rotating rear wing after abandoning a planned Austria practice trial because the concept required further development.
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