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Verstappen: I'd prefer engines to blow up than shut down

Max Verstappen says he would rather his engines were blowing up than shutting down, after revealing his failed Renault fired up in the garage after the Belgian Grand Prix. Verstappen was forced out of the race at Spa when a sensor shut down the power unit after detecting increasing pressure inside the fourth cylinder. And the Dutchman has revealed that his frustrations about the situation increased after the grand prix when his car fired up in the garage. Speaking to Dutch TV show Peptalk, Verstappen said that new safety measures introduced to stop reliability failures actually left him more annoyed. “Because we blew up a few engines at the beginning of the season, they have built a kind...
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