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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
i was amazed to see rubens rear wing being changed in the pits , iirc this is the first time i have seen it happen during a race  |
Changing a rear wing takes several minutes, on tracks where lap times are in the one minute twenties for example, it means that by the time the work's done you're about three laps down and you may as well go home.
However because Spa is so long and with the safety car deployed, it gave them enough time to change the wing and get Barrichello back out before he lost a lap.
Of course there's also the point that a rear wing failure (eg Raikonnens a race or two ago) is usually pretty catastrophic so you don't get much time to do anything about it!