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Broken wiring loom behind Rosberg DNF
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff believes the team have identified the problem behind Nico Rosberg's Singapore woes.
The German endured a nightmare race at the Marina Bay Circuit as he encountered problems in the pits before the race got underway. Although he managed to finally get going from the pitlane, he was forced to retire on lap 14 after his car shut down during a pit stop.
Rosberg revealed after the race that "all the buttons and the radio stopped their function: I had no hybrid power, I had no DRS - only the gear paddles sort of worked".
Wolff has now gone further to explain the reason for the breakdown.
"It looks like a broken loom in the steering column, which...
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