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McLaren seeks further debate over "extreme" Ocon F1 rear wing wobble

McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella wants to re-open the debate on cars continuing with damage after Esteban Ocon's "extreme" rear wing wobble in Canada.

In the closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix the rear wing on Ocon's Alpine F1 car started oscillating violently over the high Montreal kerbs.

That alarmed the chasing McLaren driver Lando Norris, who raised the issue with his team and afterwards said he was "ducking on the straights" fearing the wing would come off.

Ocon continued to finish eighth, with his team boss Otmar Szafnauer saying his engineers decided there was no risk of a catastrophic failure.

"It was extreme," Stella said straight after Sunday's race, claiming that had the issue occurred on one of his cars, it would have likely been sent to the pits.

"You need to know the construction of your car. You need to assess what's wrong.

"Then you need to wonder: would I have driven out my car and my component in this condition? It's very likely the answer is no, we didn't.

"So, I think here it becomes a sense of responsibility, which every team can interpret in a different way.

"I would like to hope that if the FIA delegate or the race director believe that it is simply just reasonable to think that that's dangerous, they intervene.

"We will certainly make a question as to what they were thinking in terms of how safe the situation was."

Source: Autosport

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