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Teams set to receive extra tyres for Friday practice
Starting from Spain, F1 teams could get extra tyres to use in Friday practice in an effort to help them get better prepared for the remainder of the race weekend in future, Bernie Ecclestone revealed on the starting grid at Shanghai just before this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix. At present teams get only 11 sets of tyres which they have to manage across the entire event. One set of the prime tyres has to be handed back by teams at the end of FP1, so typically that's all teams use in that first session - leading to long periods of inactivity during the morning as teams jealously guard their remaining tyre allocation. That limits the amount of on-track testing the teams can do, leaving them...
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