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Kimi’s record run ends after brake failure

August 28 - September 3, 2013
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Kimi Raikkonen’s record run of 27 successive Formula One races in the points came to an end when the Lotus driver retired from the Belgian Grand Prix with brake failure on Sunday.

“I had a brake failure so there was really no point in trying to continue,” he said of his first retirement since he returned to Formula One last season after two years out.

“We’ve finished a lot of races and had some good reliability; one day your luck has to run out and today was that day.”

The 2007 world champion, who passed Michael Schumacher’s 2001-03 record of 24 successive races in the points earlier in the season, returned to the pits and got out of the car.







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