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Cooking process caused Haas wing failure

Haas suspects an unexpected complication in the 'cooking' of its carbon fibre front wing supports caused the failure that affected Romain Grosjean at the Barcelona Formula 1 test. Grosjean had completed 13 laps on the first day of running on Monday when the front wing of his car broke off, dropping underneath the car on the start-finish straight before being destroyed. Haas had to ship a strengthened new wing from supplier Dallara's headquarters on Tuesday so it could resume proper running on the second day of testing. Although investigations are ongoing to find the exact reason, team boss Gene Haas said that the issue related to the failure of aluminium supports, which may have come...
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