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Pirelli fears standing wave issues on Baku's straights
Pirelli boss Paul Hembery admits that the tyre company is concerned about Baku's long straights potentially generating a standing wave issue, which, in an extreme case, could lead to failures. Standing waves can become a threat to the integrity of tyres under certain combinations of high speeds and cornering forces. They created the problems suffered by Michelin at the 2005 US GP, and again became a talking point after last year's Belgian GP, where Sebastian Vettel suffered a failure. That led to stricter monitoring of temperatures and pressures by the FIA and Pirelli. Baku features a series of straights, and the unprecedented long run from the high-speed kinks at Turns 17-20 and back to...
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