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The 2013 Season Review - Part Two

Lewis Hamilton had steadily been getting more comfortable in his Mercedes F1 W04 by the time of July’s British Grand Prix, particularly with its brake system. Having qualified on pole he was leading his home race comfortably at Silverstone from Vettel when his left-rear tyre exploded. Other equally dramatic tyre failures involving Massa, Perez and Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne quickly followed and, as Rosberg inherited victory after Vettel had retired with a gearbox problem, Pirelli had already begun urgent investigations into what had gone wrong and soon issued mandatory set-up specifications in light of what they learned. In an effort to curb their excessive tyre wear, some...
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