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Analysis: Cool Canada leaves drivers facing tyre headaches

Formula 1 drivers could face a headache in Montreal this weekend, with the cooler-than-usual temperatures set to make it much harder to get their tyres into the right operating window. A forecast repeat for race day of the chilly temperatures that greeted the F1 paddock on Thursday has left drivers in no doubt about the unique challenges they could face. The high working range of the soft tyre (which requires track temperatures of around 20 degrees to function properly) could make it unusable on race day, but it will not be straightforward to keep the lower working range supersofts and ultrasofts in the right window either. For as well as the cooler temperature, the Circuit Gilles...
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