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Vettel hopes to avoid gearbox penalty

Sebastian Vettel hopes to avoid a grid penalty for the Spanish Grand Prix after confirming he had a gearbox problem during qualifying. After missing out on most of Friday practice, Vettel looked reasonably competitive during FP3 and made it through to the final part of qualifying before stopping on track. Having failed to set a time in Q3, Vettel will start from tenth on the grid but admitted he was wary that there is a chance he will be forced to change his gearbox and incur a penalty. “Today I don't know what the cause was yet,” Vettel said. “I hope that there's no damage to the gearbox otherwise that will mean another penalty tomorrow.” Explaining what had gone wrong during...
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