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Furious Vettel fumes at Pirelli after tyre blow

A furious Sebastian Vettel has vented his anger towards Pirelli after being denied a podium finish in the Belgian Grand Prix by a tyre failure on the penultimate lap. The German had risked a one-stop strategy to get as high as third with two laps remaining, but was coming under pressure from Romain Grosjean when the right-rear tyre on the Ferrari failed down the Kemmel Straight. Marking his first non-score of the season, Vettel aired his anger in a candid interview with the BBC directly after the race, saying if it had happened '200m earlier, he wouldn't be standing here' and calling 'bulls**t' on Pirelli's suggestion Nico Rosberg's similarly dramatic failure in FP2 was caused by him going...
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