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Tyres will make it tough to reach top 10 - Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton believes that it will be hard to even reach the top 10 in the Belgian Grand Prix starting from the last row of the grid on Sunday. The reigning champion says that the race will be much tougher than the Chinese Grand Prix, where he started from the back and finished seventh, because the high pressures mandated by Pirelli make it hard to keep the tyres alive over a stint. "It's completely different to China," said Hamilton. "In China we didn't have [tyre] failures the previous year, and therefore they didn't put the pressure up to a ridiculous number. "That is the case here. They had failures last year, they're nervous of failures this year, so they put the...
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