Tuesday March 23rd, 2004

The Sauber Formula One team have denied reports about a fire on Tuesday in their new state-of-the-art wind tunnel.

The Swiss squad said there had been a short circuit in one of the transformers of the facility which had triggered the fire alarm. Sauber, however, denied there have been any fire and said the damage to the transformer would be fixed in about a week.

"On internet pages, today, there have been reports circulating about a fire in the Sauber wind tunnel," said the team in a statement. "The truth is that there was a short circuit in one of the transformers this afternoon.

"Fire alarms were triggered because of smoke development. However, there was no fire, which means there was no damage to the building."

Published at 20:14:44 GMT

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