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Tyre chaos good for some bad for others
July 9th, 2013 (F1plus).- In the fallout of Sunday's German grand prix, teams are assessing what impact the tyre shakeup had on their performance. After the tyre-exploding British grand prix, the most obvious loser of the move from steel to kevlar-belted tyres was Mercedes. But, in fact, the German team had earlier pushed hard for the change. So, having won two of the previous three grands prix, why the Nurburgring struggle? The answer could be in the FIA's clampdown on teams radically altering pressures and cambers, and switching the rear tyres from the left and right sides. Team boss Ross Brawn agrees: "I think the ability to swap tyres was a good way of offsetting the stress of the...
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