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Rosberg retirement due to freak contamination
Nico Rosberg's retirement from Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix was caused by a freak contamination of his steering column electronics by a substance used by Mercedes in their pre-event servicing, the team said on Friday. The Mercedes team said the contamination led to a loom failure in his steering wheel column. This resulted in him struggling to start and then abandoning the race won by teammate Lewis Hamilton. Briton Hamilton's victory lifted him three points clear of German Rosberg with five races remaining in their sometimes acrimonious duel for the drivers' title. "Forensic analysis has revealed that the steering column electronic circuits were contaminated with a foreign...
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