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      11-07-2023, 11:25 AM   #348
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Originally Posted by dfox View Post
If you watch his onboard camera during the formation lap, his car was giving him trouble from the beginning, doesn't sound good. Then his engine locked up, you can hear it go silent, then he tries steering into the corner and spun because clearly his rear tires were locked up. It wasn't hydraulics, it was an engine failure, which obviously led to the hydraulics being useless.
Probably Fred V told him to keep quiet when he returned to the box as there is enough embarrassment with it happening on the WU lap and of course it doesn't take an expert to work out if PU locks then you have no PAS and gearbox, you are just a passenger.
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