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Fred Vasseur rejects safety concern as Lewis Hamilton nurses failed brakes in Singapore GP

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has said Lewis Hamilton's Singapore Grand Prix was compromised from the opening laps of the race as he struggled with a brake issue that forced the driver to lift and coast until the end of the race. Despite this, the seven-time world champion still managed to score the fastest lap of the Sunday.

“It will be difficult to start with the positive,” Vasseur began, before outlining how the problem showed its face almost immediately. “Yes, we were hitting not from lap one, but from lap two or three. And we had to do a lift and coast for the race, but even for them at the end it's not easy to drive, because you have to adapt your braking point each lap.

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