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Hamilton: These tyres are not particularly good

The heat is back on Pirelli as a new Formula 1 season looms with drivers not happy with tyres for the forthcoming season. For the sake of the racing, the official supplier has added a new layer to its compounds for 2016 to limit the tyres' effective lives and force pitstops. The rules have also been tweaked so that three compounds instead of two can be used by drivers every weekend, and the new ‘ultra soft' has been turning heads in Barcelona. Still, world champion Lewis Hamilton sounded unimpressed on Wednesday, 'These tyres are not particularly good. Actually I wish we had last year's tyres because these aren't as good.' Auto Motor und Sport, the specialist German source, thinks...
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