Lotus progress halted by gearbox gremlins


SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Romain Grosjean's hopes of scoring Lotus's first points of the Formula One season were dashed on Sunday when the Frenchman was forced out of the Chinese Grand Prix by a gearbox problem.

Grosjean had qualified 10th in treacherous conditions on Saturday and was gunning for a ninth-place finish when his race engineer came on the radio asking him not to shift into fourth gear.

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