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Steiner plays down claims about sweet-smelling fuel

Apr.12 Gunther Steiner has played down claims the secret of Ferrari's success in 2019 is a sweet-smelling fuel. Although the Italian team is yet to win a race, rivals including Mercedes and Red Bull-Honda were stunned in Bahrain to see Ferrari so much faster in a straight line. In the days after, Red Bull's Christian Horner revealed that he can smell grapefruit coming from the Ferrari garage when the red cars are being refuelled. Dr Helmut Marko corrected him, saying it smells more like strawberry. "At the beginning of the season we had a meeting with Ferrari and we were asked what flavour we would like," Steiner, the boss of Ferrari-powered Haas, joked in Shanghai....
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