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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Daniel Moxon

Michael Schumacher's former F1 race engineer spills secrets including "unstable car" claim

Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna and Fernando Alonso – not a bad list of Formula 1 drivers to have worked with.

Pat Symonds is someone who can claim to have worked closely with all three of the F1 champions. Today he is the sport's chief technical officer, but in the past worked for a number of different teams, and with some of the best drivers F1 has ever seen.

Recalling his time working as Schumacher's race engineer at Benetton in 1994, the year in which he won his first title, Symonds spoke about a particular quirk of the German's which made it so tricky for his team-mates to match his performances.

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