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When wings go wrong...

Published: 17 Jan 2011

This is how Mark Webber’s Le Mans warm-up ended in ’99, when his Merc CLR lifted and flipped over (having done the same thing in quali the day before). It went light over the Mulsanne bump, lost downforce in disturbed air, and was blown skywards when things got a bit too breezy under the car.

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