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Were Red Bull retirements caused by a strange phenomenon?

Article To news overview © Red Bull Content Pool / Getty Images The reason for Red Bull's double retirement from the season-opening Grand Prix in Bahrain is yet to be confirmed by the team, two days on from the race. Having looked on for a second and fourth-place finish with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez respectively as the race entered the final handful of laps, Red Bull met with disaster as Verstappen slowed, was overtaken, and eventually crawled to a halt in the pit lane. Mere minutes later, Perez was out on the spot as his engine switched off as he negotiated his way through Turn 1 on the final lap. The near-identical failures, both in circumstance and timing, have raised all sorts...
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