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Vettel dismisses gearbox penalty threat

Scuderia Ferrari Sebastian Vettel says he does not expect to face a gearbox penalty, despite a problem ruling him out of the final part of running during practice for the Austrian Grand Prix. Having stopped on track early in the first session, Vettel recovered to clock the quickest time in the second session, before he had to abandon his long run after only a few laps due to a malfunctioning gearbox. "No," he said when asked if he was fearing a penalty. "We had an issue with the gearbox, some of the sensors switched into alert mode. "Obviously now we’ll have to take a close look at it: we don’t know what’s the problem yet, but it seems to be unrelated to the one...
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