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Mercedes probably not only team with wrong tyre pressures

Paul Hembery has played down the assertion that Mercedes could have fiddled with its tyre pressures to have them running lower during the Italian Grand Prix, suggesting it is likely other teams had also inadvertently run them illegally. Mercedes was almost disqualified from the Monza event earlier this month after a tyre on both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's cars was found to be under the permitted limit of pressure. A subsequent investigation confirmed as much, but the FIA accepted Mercedes' reasoning that it had correctly followed procedures as set out in the regulations and had therefore not done anything illegally. The team then argued that it wouldn't have knowingly attempted to...
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