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Ricciardo's evening in Qatar thwarted by false fuel readings

Daniel Ricciardo's Qatar Grand Prix went from bad to worse on Sunday due to a poor start and erroneous fuel readings from his McLaren car that compromised his race. Ricciardo had qualified only 14th on Saturday which left the Aussie with a fair amount of work to do on Sunday. Unfortunately, a cautious approach to Turn 1 in the melee set the McLaren driver back to P16 from where he recovered to move up the order. But extreme fuel consumption readings – which would later prove to be incorrect – turned the second part of his race into an economy run that left him lingering well down the order. "I started doing what I thought was already a lot and it was not enough," Ricciardo...
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