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Raikkonen rues gearbox penalty and tyre issues
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Kimi Raikkonen was clearly unhappy to find himself starting the 2016 Monaco Grand Prix from outside the top ten, as the result of a combination of tyre problems and a forced gearbox change, which came with a five place grid penalty. "I felt there was something wrong in FP3 and we had to change it," Raikkonen said when asked about the gearbox. "I don't know exactly what happened but we had to change parts or the whole gearbox and that was a very unfortunate thing," he continued. "It’s not the first time unfortunate things happen – if I could take the penalty somewhere else I would – but this is how it is." Raikkonen was also...
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