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Pirelli urges F1 to relax testing rules

Formula One must allow in-season testing to avoid the risk next year of tyres lasting only a handful of laps and races being cut short, according to Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery. Under fire for the quick-wearing 2013 compounds that led to a blizzard of pitstops in Spain on Sunday, Hembery warned that a current testing ban made it harder for the Italian company to meet significant technical challenges coming in 2014. He raised the possible scenario of a race "where you literally can only do five or six laps on every single option that we bring because we've totally underestimated the impact (of the new regulations). "I don't think we'll have an issue with structural...
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