Kevin Magnussen missed the finish of the Mexico City Grand Prix due to a broken left rear suspension. In Sao Paulo, Haas team leader Günther Steiner identified the cause of the failure as overheating.
As the race progressed, Kevin actively defended himself against attacks from Logan Sargent, which led to a rise in rear brake temperatures and failure of the temperature sensors due to the heat. The team simply did not know that the temperature at the rear of the car had reached critical levels and was causing the suspension to fail.
“We haven’t changed anything on the car,” said Günter Steiner in Sao Paulo. – The next time you need to work more carefully with the car: brake with the engine, coast. This is how our riders will act.
It’s a shame this happened. The brakes continued to work, but the heat turned off the sensors and no one knew simply that the heat had damaged the suspension. After that everything happened very quickly. We saw from the telemetry that the brakes were a little hotter than they should be, and then all the sensors turned off. And almost immediately the suspension broke.
But we drew conclusions from what happened. If the sensors fail, it means that the temperature is very high! This is a very good warning.”
Guenther Steiner added that the team restored Magnussen’s car – no chassis replacement was required.
Source: F1 News
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