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Perez says F1 ignoring Pirelli danger

Sergio Perez has added yet another dissenting voice to the debate about F1's controversial tyre supplier. Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber in Korea slammed Pirelli for providing poor quality, heavily degrading products, but it was McLaren's Perez who actually suffered a scary accident in the race when his tyre exploded. "Pirelli will put the puncture of Perez down to a lock-up but the reason the drivers are locking up is because there's no tread left," Webber had said. As predicted, Pirelli chief Paul Hembery did blame the Perez incident on a bad lock-up, but he said Webber was wrong to point the finger. "There are two issues here that Mark is conflating," he said....
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