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KERS failure caused Red Bull fire scare

By Simon Strang Thursday, July 17th 2008, 18:01 GMT

A fire scare that occurred in Red Bull Racing's factory on Wednesday was triggered by a battery failure in the team's new Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), autosport.com has learned, but team principal Christian Horner insists there was never any danger to the team's staff

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