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Pirelli refutes Singapore tyre 'conspiracy' talk

 XPB Images Pirelli has strongly rebuffed suggestions that it provided Mercedes with different tyres from the rest of the F1 teams at Singapore. The latest wild speculation stemmed from Mercedes' sudden drop-off in form in last week's race. Having been consistently up to a second and a half ahead of their rivals in the season up to that stage, Mercedes were suddenly unable to achieve parity with Ferrari and Red Bull for the street circuit night race. One conspiracy theory that has been circulating in the days since Singapore is that Mercedes had been intentionally given different tyres in order to to slow them down compared with the other teams, with even Mercedes' head of...
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