Max Verstappen following his high speed crash Sebastian Vettel has led calls for an investigation into the apparent tyre failures suffered by Lance Stroll and Max Verstappen during the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Both drivers suffered heavy high-speed crashes after their left-rear tyre seemed to give way. On Lap 30, Stroll was pitched into the wall on drivers’ left as he rounded Turn 19 – effectively a kink in the long front straight. The Canadian was still running the hard compound Pirelli tyres on which he’d started the race at the time of the incident. Later, Verstappen crashed out only metres up the road with a seemingly identical problem. Indeed, it prompted Red Bull’s...
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