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Hembery: Tyres can handle the heat
Paul Hembery is confident Pirelli's tyres will hold up in the heat in Budapest as the track temperature heads towards the 50'C mark.
The teams ran the revised tyres, which feature last year's construction with this year's compounds, during the recent Young Driver Test with rave reviews.
The tyres were then put into action on Friday at the Hungaroring where the track temperature reached 44'C in the morning's session alone.
None of the drivers, however, had any problems with their Pirellis.
"I wouldn't say it'll be the harshest [race we've faced]," Hembery, the company's motorsport director, told NF1.
"Bahrain is always pretty horrific from that point of view and...
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