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Pirelli reveals early findings from Baku F1 tyre blowouts

Stroll and Verstappen’s races ended prematurely in Baku after two separate tyre failures, resulting in high-speed crashes. Both drivers were running on Pirelli’s C3 hard tyre and after the race, Isola revealed Pirelli found cuts on Lewis Hamilton’s left-rear tyre. “Obviously we didn’t have the time to perform a full investigation and we need to send the tyres back to Milan,” Isola said. “The plan is to send them by air freight to Milan tomorrow and make an investigation in our laboratories, on this set, plus some other sets used in the same stint.  “Looking at the tyres used in the second stint, for most of the drivers we didn’t find any evidence, or anything. I believe...
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