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Horner praises 'no panic' Ricciardo after MGU-K failure

Red Bull's Christian Horner could not lavish enough praise on Daniel Ricciardo following the Aussie's lights-to-flag win in Monaco, achieved despite a major engine set back. Less than 20 laps into the 78-lap event, Ricciardo reported a sudden loss of power which the team immediately attributed to an MGU-K failure. The situation appeared dire with the team's engineers predicting the leader's demise with a handful of laps, but a calm and composed Ricciardo continued his race unabated, multi-tasking at the wheel of the weakened RB14 as he managed the job at hand on several fronts. "He just managed it like he was on a Sunday afternoon drive," a massively impressed Horner told Sky F1....
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