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Trouble strikes Hamilton in Malaysia first practice

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton suffered an engine failure in Friday's opening practice session for the Malaysian Grand Prix while his teammate Nico Rosberg set the fastest time at Sepang International Circuit. Hamilton pulled off the track around 30 minutes into the 90-minute session, and radioed back to the pit-wall that 'there was a click in the rear, the gears still worked but I stopped the car like you told me to, but I would have made it back.' His engineer replied 'we are a bit worried about this because it's a race engine' and took a cautious approach because there was also a telemetry failure on the car so they did not know what the problem was. Hamilton did not return for...
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