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Silverstone chaos shouldn't happen in Germany predict former drivers

Silverstone chaos shouldn't happen in Germany predict former drivers 3 July, 2013 Jean Eric Vergne's left Pirelli goes ‘boom' during the British GP According to former drivers, after the tyre-exploding British Grand Prix, Formula 1 can look forward to a calmer weekend at the Nurburgring. Pirelli has announced that in Germany it will supply teams with kevlar rather than the steel-belted tyres that exploded at Silverstone. The Italian marque also said the teams' habits of swapping the left and right rear tyres, and running unrecommended tyre pressures and cambers, caused the problems. And Germany's Bild newspaper published a photo of a sharp kerb, covered with black tyre markings, that...
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