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Visibility made Magnussen want to retire in Turkey

Guenther Steiner says that Kevin Magnussen wanted to retire the car in Turkey due to a lack of visibility caused by dirty mirrors. Magnussen endured a difficult race at Istanbul Park. He was running in P10 early in the race, but any chance of scoring points disappeared when his team released him without securing a wheel-nut when pitting him and had to pull him back in. He spent the rest of the Turkish Grand Prix at the back of the field being lapped by the leaders and struggled to see them due to dirty mirrors. Because of this, he wanted to retire the car, according to the Haas team principal. 'The difficulty was he couldn't see to the back, because of the mirrors,' said Steiner to...
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