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Brake disc failure blamed for Leclerc/Hartley smash

Charles Leclerc's first home Grand Prix in Monaco didn't end quite the way he was hoping for on Sunday. The 20-year-old started the race from 14th place and was running as high as 12th when he started to suffer brake problems with 14 laps remaining. "I felt like the pedal was getting very, very long of the brakes," he explained afterwards. "It was very inconsistent. "Even putting the same amount of brakes on the pedal, it was really like 'not decelerating, decelerating and then decelerating. "It was very difficult to manage and at one point they just gave up." That moment came on lap 70 as the Sauber emerged from the tunnel in the run down to the Nouvelle...
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