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Fire extinguisher foam led to Ricciardo penalty
'If he didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all', so they say, and just days after Daniel Ricciardo claimed his car was 'cursed', perhaps the Australian has a point. Having incurred a 5-place grid penalty after the team had to change the turbocharger on his power unit, it was subsequently revealed that foam used to extinguish the small fire that led to his retirement in Mexico was the cause of the damage. 'Obviously the marshals were doing the prudent thing, and they had seen a bit of smoke,' team boss Christian Horner told Sky Sports. 'You can see flames coming out of the back there, so you cannot blame the marshal really, he is putting out a fire. But then he has rammed a load of...
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