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Pirelli confirm the reasoning behind last weekend's tyre failures at the British Grand Prix

There will be no changes to the planned tyre compounds at the British Grand Prix this weekend at the second of the Formula One races at Silverstone Circuit according to tyre manufacturer Pirelli.  Investigations following the rapid tyre degradation and deflation of both Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team cars and the McLaren F1 Team car of Carlos Sainz Jr. concluded that the failures were down to the race circumstances of each driver which led to an excessively longer stint on the second set of tyres together with the increased pace and forces felt by the 2020 cars. Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Sainz were the notable casualties of the rapid deflation.   The safety car at...
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