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Magnussen failure caused by broken hydraulic pipe

Haas says a freak failure of a washer cutting through a hydraulic pipe was the cause of Kevin Magnussen’s retirement from the Austrian Grand Prix. Magnussen had looked set for a points finish in the Red Bull Ring when his car suddenly hit trouble after losing all its hydraulics. Having investigated the matter after the race, team boss Gunther Steiner has revealed that the issue was created by the hydraulic pipe to Magnussen’s DRS getting cut through after rubbing on another part of the car. “An hydraulic pipe was shaved through,” he said. “The pipe was going to the DRS system and he lost all the hydraulic fluid, so that was it. He lost all the hydraulics, the gearshift didn’t...
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