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Ricciardo thankful to qualify sixth after ‘herculean’ repair

Daniel Ricciardo Daniel Ricciardo has praised the effort of the Red Bull team to repair his car in time to compete in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix. The Australian suffered a suspected turbo failure in Practice 3 which necessitated an engine change on the #3 RB14 with a little over two hours before the 60 minute qualifying session. Matters were made worse when the team did not have access to a complete Renault power unit to make a straight swap. Components from two engines were required to complete the switch which was finished with three minutes remaining in Q1. Ricciardo had only enough time to log one flying lap which was good enough to see him through to Q2, before going on to...
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