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Rear wing endfence failure blamed for Mann's crash

Pippa Mann says a left rear wing end face failure caused the accident that occurred on her first qualifying run as she exited Turn 2 on her opening lap. The Dale Coyne Racing-Honda dipped low beneath the white line and the rear drifted out, clouted the outside wall, then spun slowly across the track scrubbing off speed in a clouds of tire smoke, before hitting the inside wall with the left-front. Mann told Motorsport.com: "I had fast enough hands and I got hard on the brakes to minimize the damage.  "It was a rear-wing end fence failure and there wasn't a lot I could do with that," she said. "But the boys are working really hard to put the car back together now....
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