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F1 unlikely to switch to 18-inch wheels
Paddy Lowe admits that F1 is unlikely to switch from 13-inch to 18-inch wheels. Having tried 18-inch wheels on a Lotus during last year's post-British GP test at Silverstone, Pirelli recently tried them again, this time on a GP2 car at Monaco with Martin Brundle at the wheel. However, despite Michelin's claim that it will only return to F1 if the 18-inch wheel format is adopted, it is not thought the sport will make the switch. 'The subject of bigger wheels has been raised over the last five or eight years,' Lowe told reporters in Monaco. 'I think the broad consensus is that going to bigger wheels is not a good direction. Certainly from a grip point of view it's not positive. Like for...
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