July 18th 2020, Max Verstappen qualifies 7th for the Hungarian Grand Prix. With Red Bull fighting Mercedes for the Constructor’s championship and Max fighting Lewis Hamilton and Vallteri Bottas for the Driver’s Championship, this wasn’t his best qualifying session.

July 19th 2020, during the formation lap, Max crashed his car, damaging his front wing and suspension. In the next 22 minutes, Red Bull mechanics performed an absolute miracle.

How did they do it? How did they go from a crashed car to giving Max a chance to fight for a podium in under 23 minutes? And what can we learn about incident management from one of the most demanding engineering disciplines in the world?

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