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New Pirelli tyre not only due to Baku blowouts – Isola

Jun.26 Mario Isola has played down suggestions Pirelli is introducing a new rear tyre purely because of the Baku blowouts. Formula 1's official supplier announced in Austria that the 'new rear construction', which is designed to 'improve robustness', will be tested by teams in free practice next Friday. The aim is to race the new tyre from Silverstone. The obvious conclusion is that Pirelli is effectively admitting that the sub-standard ‘robustness' of the existing rear tyre design contributed to the blowouts suffered by Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll at Baku. But the Italian company's F1 chief Mario Isola actually said Pirelli has been thinking about doing this since last year....
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