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Newey says managing tyre situation in 2013 is just luck
Adrian Newey has hit back at claims Pirelli's mid-season tyre switch was a stab at the ingenuity of rival teams like Lotus and Ferrari.
The tyre-exploding dramas of Silverstone in July forced F1 to allow its official tyre supplier to revert to the kevlar-belted construction of 2012.
Teams like Lotus and Ferrari, however, complained loudly that the switch negated their pre-season work in specifically adapting their 2013 cars to the new steel-belted Pirellis.
Red Bull designer Newey, whose RB9 utterly dominated the second half of the season in the wake of the tyre switch, rubbished those claims.
Speaking on Austrian television Servus TV, the Briton acknowledged that the initial 2013 Pirelli...
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