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Pirelli still investigating Hamilton tyre failure
Pirelli is conducting a detailed investigation into the cause of Lewis Hamilton's tyre failure in Bahrain last weekend.
In the wake of the Bahrain grand prix, we reported rumours that some were questioning the mere safety of the official F1 supplier's already-controversial 2013 tyres.
Those rumours had been triggered mainly by Felipe Massa's two separate failures in the race on Sunday, but it is believed both problems were subsequently found to have been caused by simple punctures.
However, the practice failure on Hamilton's Mercedes is raising alarm bells.
"They (Pirelli) are not entirely convinced it is down to debris, as first thought," British journalist Byron Young wrote in...
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