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Pirelli ‘understands' Verstappen's tyre-kicking anger

Jun.10 Mario Isola says he can 'completely understand' Max Verstappen's anger which culminated in the Dutchman kicking his shredded Pirelli tyre after a high-speed blowout at Baku. The incident cost Red Bull's top driver the win and an expanded championship lead, with Verstappen immediately and correctly predicting that Pirelli would blame debris rather than acknowledge a tyre failure. When asked about Verstappen's anger, Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola told France's Auto Hebdo: 'I completely understand that. 'Nobody wants to experience an accident above 300kph.' Pirelli had said immediate observations backed the debris theory, but a full investigation is currently underway. 'If it was...
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