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McLaren clarification prompts tyre pressure move

Formula 1 could introduce a system of live monitoring of tyre pressures in 2017, in the wake of a McLaren clarification regarding trick designs to potentially get around current limits. Speculation about teams cleverly managing tyre pressures has grown over recent races, amid suspicions that some outfits have come up with ways to minimise the impact of mandatory limits laid down by Pirelli. At the moment, on behalf of Pirelli, the FIA imposes a minimum starting pressure on the tyres, which is measured when the tyres are fitted to the cars. However, there have been suspicions that some outfits have founds ways to get the pressures down to the optimum operating window for when the cars are...
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