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Ferrari sheds light on reliability issues

Speaking ahead of a race weekend that is absolutely crucial to his team and driver Sebastian Vettel's title hopes, Ferrari technical director Mattia Binotto has shed further light on the issues that plagued his team in Sepang, causing Kimi Raikkonen to not make the start and teammate Sebastian Vettel fail to post a time in Q1 the previous day. 'The problems we had were completely unexpected,' he admitted, 'there are problems that we did not experience both at the dyno or at the race track during the entire season. 'There were some quality issues with the parts,' he continued. 'We failed an inlet manifold of the engine, from the compressor to the cylinder heads, and it happened twice,...
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