Sentence examples for car failures from inspiring English sources

Rosberg has twice built up large leads over his rival this year after car failures for Hamilton.

The German has retired from five of this year's seven races - four of them through car failures or team errors.

The German leads by 14 points heading into Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix after winning four races to Hamilton's five but suffering fewer car failures.

He added that it was a relief to be at the front after car failures left him starting from the back of the field in the previous two races in Germany and Hungary.

There were the car failures that forced him to start from the back in Germany and Hungary in July, from which he recovered to finish third in races he might well have won.

And yet the fates have conspired against him, whether through driving errors, car failures at inopportune moments, other team errors or - last year - Rosberg's controversial trip down the escape road in qualifying that conspired to deprive Hamilton of a likely pole.

Hamilton emerged unscathed from his car, shortly after which the team tweeted: "A car failure for Lewis put him off at turn one.

"I was 29 points behind and I was thinking 'just don't lose another seven points through car failure or whatever'.

If you have ever suffered any sort of car failure, you know the questions that get tossed around the dining room table.

His car failure was reminiscent of last year's race, when he finished last after his engine went up in smoke on the second lap.

Force India later withdrew both of their cars from Friday's second practice session as they continued to investigate the car failure which led to Perez's horrific crash.