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Ferrari explains cause of double failure at Malaysia GP

Ferrari’s chief technical officer Mattia Binotto has revealed the cause behind the team’s double engine failure during the Malaysia GP race weekend which came as ‘completely unexpected’ after not showing up during dyno testing. Sebastian Vettel saw his qualifying at Sepang ended prematurely by an engine issue which forced him to start the Malaysia race from last place, while Kimi Raikkonen suffered an identical issue with his car during his sighting lap to the starting grid and was forced to miss the start of the race. Ferrari has run thorough analysis into the cause of the double engine failure and Binotto says it was a problem with the inlet manifold on the compressor to the...
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