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Tyre changes frustrate Lotus

Lotus team principal Eric Boullier has likened Pirelli's decision to tweak its tyre range for the Canadian Grand Prix to changing the dimensions of a football pitch at half-time to benefit a struggling team. After Fernando Alonso won the Spanish Grand Prix on a four-stop strategy, Pirelli announced it would alter the construction and compounds of its tyres to attempt to hit its target of two to three pit stops per race. Lotus was one of the teams that was coping best with the original-specification 2013 tyre, and in Spain completed the race distance with three stops to finish second. Boullier said Pirelli's decision was frustrating and alluded to pressure from Red Bull as one of the...
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