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by extrapickles 3708 days ago
Since they are limited to 5 engines per season[0], they were probably very worried that the fault could lead to the loss of an engine. When I did racing, for even the most minor of faults/errors/"that's odd", large amounts of effort were put into correcting the fault if it was on the list of "If this broke, we lost".

[0]: http://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/championship/...

edit: grammar fix