Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has explained the team's decision to take its 'Macarena' wing off its F1 car after Chinese GP practice.
Originally debuted in Bahrain pre-season testing, the rear wing, which rotates open and closed through 270 degrees, was only run for five laps and then not at all during the Australian GP weekend.
During the sole practice session in China on the Sprint weekend, the wing was trailed once again, this time on both the cars of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, but then removed ahead of Sprint Qualifying.
The wing, which is designed to create lift and thus induce a stronger diffuser stall in a straight line, has not been abandoned, but as Vasseur explained, Ferrari simply needs to gather more data before introducing the design on a permanent basis.
"We didn’t put enough mileage on the rear wing," Vasseur told media, including RacingNews365.
"And, with the system today, you have to do FP1 because you don’t have tests between the races.
"That means, if we want to put mileage on the parts, we need to do FP1, which will do it again probably next week [in Japan].
"At one stage, the reliability will be okay, and the mileage will be okay, and we will introduce it for the full weekend."
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