News Details

'Teams could boycott Germany'

FIA President Jean Todt has called for calm despite summoning Pirelli to a meeting of the Sporting Committee on Wednesday in the wake of the alarming tyre failures which blighted the British GP.Four cars suffered blowouts during Sunday's race while race victor Nico Rosberg was forced to take a precautionary pit-stop with just ten laps remaining due to damage to his left-rear compound. The unsettling spectacle - causing severe reputational damage for both tyre supplier and sport - has led to calls that Pirelli revert to last year's rubber, with Lewis Hamilton, who lost the lead of the race after becoming the first of the quartet to suffer a puncture on lap eight of Sunday's event, branding...
Full Story »
11y ago from SkySports.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Todt calls for calm

FIA President Jean Todt has called for calm despite summoning Pirelli to a...
11y ago from SkySports.com

Pirelli to investigate serious tyre failures

By Phillip Horton on Sunday, June 30, 2013 Pirelli's motorsport director...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

Pirelli failures: What the drivers said...

In the wake of a bizarre string of tyre failures at the British Grand...
11y ago from GPUpdate.net

Button says ‘scary' failures need fixing

McLaren driver Jenson Button says Pirelli must fix their problems which...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Louis Foster reveals likely cause of scary 180MPH...

On lap 84 of Sunday’s Detroit Grand Prix, Louis Foster was involved in...

Santino Ferrucci praises team for career best second...

Santino Ferrucci earned the best result of his eight year IndyCar career...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Summer transfer window 2025: Best free agents on offer...

As transfer season gets into full swing, Sports Mole looks at some of the...
44m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Arsenal transfer news: Gunners 'in pole position' to...

Arsenal are reportedly in pole position to edge out Manchester United in...
1h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Summer transfer window 2025: Best free agents on offer...

As transfer season gets into full swing, Sports Mole looks at some of the...
34m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Today's confirmed Premier League transfers: Monday,...

Keep track of every summer transfer deal done involving Premier League...
34m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.