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Webber suspects KERS caused fire

Mark Webber's car on fire caught by the big screen TV Sutton Images Enlarge Mark Webber suspects it was a KERS fire that brought an end to his Korean Grand Prix after he was hit by a spinning Adrian Sutil. Webber endured a difficult race, starting 10 places down on the grid due to a penalty, suffering a puncture after his second pit stop and finally retiring from the race in a ball of flames. Sutil made a mistake under braking for Turn 3 and hit Webber on the apex, prompting what the Red Bull driver suspected was a KERS fire. "I think that the KERS caught fire very quickly so the contact was very high," he said. "There was a KERS fire immediately and it got quite heavy...
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