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Pirelli suspect cause of cut found on Hamilton's tyre

Mario Isola, Pirelli’s head of F1, says early indications are that debris was the cause of the two tyre failures at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. And Isola suggested Lewis Hamilton had been fortunate to avoid the same fate as Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll for a cut was found on his rear left tyre. On lap 31 in Baku, Stroll, still with the set of hard tyres on his Aston Martin with which he had started the race, suffered a rear-left failure on the long pits straight and crashed into the barrier at high speed, bringing out the Safety Car. Could be a reasonably long safety car as Stroll’s car is recovered and the debris is cleared up. For the time being the pit lane is still closed, so...
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