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Rosberg fastest in Belgium practice despite tyre failure

Nico Rosberg clocked the fastest time in Friday's practice for the Belgian Grand Prix despite a scary puncture coming into one of the fastest corners of the circuit. Rosberg's rear right tyre burst as he sped into the Blanchimont corner in the afternoon session but he did not crash into any of the barriers and stopped across the outside of the track, bringing out the red flag. 'I was at top speed, it wasn't good,' Rosberg said. Despite the incident, Rosberg was 0.302 seconds faster than Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. Rosberg also also edged Hamilton in the morning session. Mercedes chief engineer Paddy Lowe said the team would investigate what he called 'a very unusual'...
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