Britain: Formula 1's official tyre supplier
Pirelli has announced an unchanged tyre line up for this year's British
Grand Prix as they blamed the teams for lack of support. Pirelli had
earlier announced that they would be modifying the tyres due to
degradation issues that had caused teams to take up 4 stop strategy in
this year's Spanish Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton also suffered due to delamination of tyres as it broke the rear suspension of his car in Bahrain practice.
Red Bull and Mercedes have been in support of changing the tyres
for the future races but Lotus, Ferrari and Force India have declined
the offer put forward by Pirelli as the current set of tyres do not
hamper the safety of the drivers. PIrelli were supposed to introduce new
hard tyres for this year's British Grand Prix but have stepped back as
they were not able to test these tyres in Canada's practice session.
"This decision is due to the fact that the new tyres, which were
brought to the Friday free practice sessions in Canada, could not be
tested sufficiently due to rain - and that the teams failed to agree
unanimously about introducing the changes.
"Instead a change in the tyre production process should now ensure
that the delamination issue has been addressed," said a Pirelli
spokesperson
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