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F1 unease remains after Silverstone tyre chaos

There remains an uneasy feeling in the Nurburgring paddock on Thursday, with memories of Sunday's chaotic and tyre-exploding Silverstone race still fresh. Pirelli and the FIA have reacted immediately to the worrying situation by ensuring teams will have new kevlar-belted rear tyres this weekend in Germany. But the unease is about F1's tyre supplier having claimed the teams were effectively to blame for the failed tyres, by running low pressures, extreme cambers and fitting left-hand rears on the right of the car and vice versa. SID news agency on Thursday, however, quoted Mercedes boss Ross Brawn as saying the German team - whose Lewis Hamilton suffered one of the spectacular tyre failures...
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