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Gearbox issues raises concerns at Mercedes

Sutton Images Enlarge Toto Wolff says Nico Rosberg's gearbox failure at the British Grand Prix has raised "lots of concerns" and caught the team by surprise. Rosberg retired from the lead of the race on lap 29 after struggling with issues since lap 20. It is the third retirement this season across both Mercedes cars and Wolff admitted his team was still wary of reliability issues. "[We have] lots of concerns," he said. "The pace was really good [at Silverstone] and we understand much better what happened with our cooling issues [in previous races], but then having a gearbox failure is a bit of a hit. You wouldn't expect in 2014 having a DNF because of a gearbox...
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