The cause of Magnussen’s scary race-ending Mexico City GP shunt revealed
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Magnussen suffered a heavy on Lap 34 of the race in Mexico, resulting in a brief red flag stoppage as marshalls were forced to repair the barrier.The Dane’s rear-suspension broke when coming up to the sweeping bends in the middle section of the track.Magnussen’s Haas was completely destroyed, capping off a dismal day for the team.Steiner said after the race: “With Kevin, he had a suspension failure, so we need to dig into why that happened, but it seems to be heat related – we need to check. It was a tough day again, but it’s not all negative.”
Reflecting on the incident, Magnussen revealed that he got “a knock on his hands” from the .“I ed after having a rear left suspension failure,” Magnussen explained. “It happened in a bad place and I hit the wall, so I got a knock on my hands and they hurt a little bit, but they’re fine.“We have to investigate a bit more what exactly happened as it just gave up.“Before that, it was going okay, I was stuck in traffic for a long time and cooked my tyres, but I don’t know if whatever caused the failure had an impact for a while beforehand.”Related Hamilton assesses Perez battle for P2: “They have the championship-winning car” Hamilton’s strategy questioned by Horner: “They had a bit of a stroke of luck…”
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