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According to team Red Bull Racing engineers, the failure that caused Mark Webber's retirement from the Grand Prix of Singapore was caused by one of the most bizarre event.
Analysis of the data recorded in the car tends to show that Webber's retirement with a broken gearbox may have been caused by a passing tramway train.
The British magazine Autosport quotes boss Christian Horner as saying static electricity produced by the tram could have caused the gearbox to select two gears at once.
"A tram line runs beneath the track at that corner (13) and it seems as if static from a passing tram at the very moment Mark was in the corner passed through the ground," he said, explaining that Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel encountered a similar problem earlier that weekend with his near-identical car.
photo:Gepa Pictures - Red Bull
According to team Red Bull Racing engineers, the failure that caused Mark Webber's retirement from the Grand Prix of Singapore was caused by one of the most bizarre event.
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Analysis of the data recorded in the car tends to show that Webber's retirement with a broken gearbox may have been caused by a passing tramway train.
The British magazine Autosport quotes boss Christian Horner as saying static electricity produced by the tram could have caused the gearbox to select two gears at once.
"A tram line runs beneath the track at that corner (13) and it seems as if static from a passing tram at the very moment Mark was in the corner passed through the ground," he said, explaining that Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel encountered a similar problem earlier that weekend with his near-identical car.
photo:Gepa Pictures - Red Bull