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Hamilton: 'Ridiculous' tyre pressures make recovery harder
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Lewis Hamilton says his ability to recover through the field in tomorrow's Belgian Grand Prix has been made harder by the tyre pressures being "a ridiculous number". Pirelli has imposed minimum tyre pressures of 23.5 PSI front and 22 PSI rear at Spa-Francorchamps, which combined with hot weather has led to high levels of degradation. Hamilton will start from the back row as a result of numerous power unit penalties, and having also started from last place in China this season the championship leader says he faces a much tougher task in this race. "It’s completely different to China," Hamilton said. "In China we didn’t have failures the...
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