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Tech analysis: Mercedes brake heating a tyre boost

Mercedes keeps pushing the boundaries despite having a car that is the class of the F1 field. Giorgio Piola looks at the latest innovation introduced by the German squad to improve tyre performance. There has been no better illustration recently of the need of Formula 1 teams to get tyres into the perfect operating window than what happened to Mercedes in Singapore. Despite a car that is clearly the class of the field, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were powerless around the Marina Bay circuit to find the speed from their rubber. Failure to manage properly both the surface and core temperature of the rear tyres – on a weekend when Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari got it spot on – was...
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