The Aston Martin Valiant is a unique limited run super sports car for many reasons, but one is its unusual boxy rear wing that is a part of the carbon fiber body.

Thus, to Red Bull’s designers, a rear wing capable of lasting 25,000 miles was one with a practically ancient life span. From Aston Martin’s perspective, that simply wouldn’t do for a road car.

Elsewhere on the grid, Aston Martin and Haas have also submitted lower-downforce rear wings to improve their straightline speed - Haas stating in the pre-event technical notes that "two carry-over ...