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Massa: slow formation lap caused poor start

dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">   SILVERSTONE, 6th July 2014 (F1Plus / Rosie Baillie) - Felipe Massa said his poor start at the British Grand Prix was caused by a slow formation lap which caused his clutch to heat up. The Williams driver lined up 15th on the grid but dropped down the order after a poor getaway and as a result was caught up in Kimi Raikkonen’s crash. “The problem is that all these cars, they go very slow on the formation lap, very slow, we stop in the track and my clutch went very high temperature.” he explained. “So it didn’t work, so the car was not moving on the start. Because the car was not...
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