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Total fuel damaging fuel sensor claims FIA
Fabrice Lom The fuel supplied by French oil giant Total could be causing Red Bull's repeated problems with the mandatory fuel flow sensor in 2014.
It emerges that in qualifying in Shanghai, the reigning world champions struck trouble with the Gill-supplied device yet again.
To avoid a Melbourne-style disqualification, Red Bull reportedly adhered to an interim agreement reached with the governing FIA to revert to other measurements in the event of a sensor failure.
In the meantime, the search for the problem continues.
Speed Week correspondent Matthias Brunner has quoted the FIA's technical expert Fabrice Lom as explaining that the Total-supplied fuel is probably the culprit.
'On the sensor...
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