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Suspension failure caused Ricciardo retirement
Daniel Ricciardo says a suspension failure was the reason for his "boring" Brazilian Grand Prix coming to a premature end.
Ricciardo limped back to the pit lane on lap 39 after reporting what he initially thought was a brake failure, ending a run of 15 consecutive top eight finishes.
"From yesterday afternoon the weekend went a little downhill, obviously I had the issue today," Ricciardo said. "To be honest a few laps before my eventually problem I had, let's say wobbles, going down when I was braking. The car seemed to be behaving a little bit weird. You never know, it could be tyres wearing, so you try not to take too much notice. Eventually when I braked into Turn 1 the car shot to the right and for me, I thought there was a brake failure. I came into the pits and the team told me it was a suspension failure, so I was wrong with that one.
Even if Ricciardo had not suffered the suspension failure he does not think he was on for a strong finish in Interlagos, even though team-mate Sebastian Vettel finished fifth.
"It was unfortunately a bit of a boring race; we were close to everyone but not close enough to really have many fights. I would have liked to have a bit more fun but we didn't really have much else there."
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