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Pirelli ‘can deliver four seconds'

Paul Hembery reckons by changing the size of the tyres and introducing proper testing Pirelli could lower F1's lap times by 'four seconds.' The sport is currently looking into various ways to make F1 cars fast and plan to introduce various changes in 2017. However, Hembery says Pirelli can achieve that goal for F1 and that it would a lot cheaper than redesigning the cars. 'If you want to increase performance, we can do that,' he told Autosport. 'Just by the tyre size change we will probably gain two seconds. 'If you then gave us a proper testing programme, probably by the tyres alone, and with a natural evolution of the current car, we can deliver four seconds, and [the teams] won't need...
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