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Haas says vibration issue caused Grosjean wing breakage

Haas F1 team boss Gunther Steiner has explained a vibration issue caused by the kerbs at Bahrain was to blame for Romain Grosjean’s front wing breakage in second practice. The Frenchman shed part of his front wing in the closing stages of FP2 after running over the kerbs at Turn 13, resulting in the Virtual Safety Car being deployed. Grosjean had previously suffered a front wing failure on the opening day of Barcelona testing in February, but Steiner explained that this was an entirely different problem. "It wasn't a failure – he went over the kerbs and something broke, it touched the kerb with the vibration," said the Austrian. "So we are working on it now to fix it, it...
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