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Fire brings Vergne's day to early end
Last week it was Mark Webber's car, this time it was the sister Toro Rosso of Jean-Eric Vergne that was stricken, in what appeared to be a case of rear brakes overheating and setting light to the bodywork in an incident serious enough to force race control to briefly red flag the session as marshalls scrambled to the scene and smothered the STR8 with extinguisher. "As I was going out of the pits, my engineer was on the radio to me, so I had to wait until the middle of sector 1 before I could tell him something," reported Vergne after he made his way back to the pits. "I thought I had an engine problem, but then I realised the rear brakes were stuck. "I tried to brake...
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