News Details

Tyres will make it tough to reach top 10 - Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton believes that it will be hard to even reach the top 10 in the Belgian Grand Prix starting from the last row of the grid on Sunday. The reigning champion says that the race will be much tougher than the Chinese Grand Prix, where he started from the back and finished seventh, because the high pressures mandated by Pirelli make it hard to keep the tyres alive over a stint. "It's completely different to China," said Hamilton. "In China we didn't have [tyre] failures the previous year, and therefore they didn't put the pressure up to a ridiculous number. "That is the case here. They had failures last year, they're nervous of failures this year, so they put the...
Full Story »
8y ago from Motorsport.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Pirelli mandated tyre pressures under fire at Spa

Pirelli's tyres are back in the spotlight at Spa-Francorchamps after many...
8y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Pirelli keeps tyre pressures despite driver complaints

 XPB Images Pirelli has not lowered tyre pressures for the...
8y ago from F1i.com

Pirelli to keep high minimum pressures despite driver...

Pirelli will keep the minimum tyre pressures limit in place for the whole...

Pirelli dismisses driver complaints over pressures

 XPB Images Pirelli says it will not react to driver complaints...
8y ago from F1i.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Marco Bezzecchi: Aprilia MotoGP bike ‘doesn't...

Marco Bezzecchi says his Aprilia machinery "doesn't always...

Why Michelin has given up on MotoGP

No description available...
4h ago from Motorsport.com

MotoGP announce Pirelli as new tyre supplier from 2027

MotoGP has formally announced a new agreement with Italian tyre...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar’s FOX network debut increased viewership by...

FOX Sports has released viewership numbers for the opening round of the...

IndyCar St. Petersburg – Race Results

The first race of the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series season took place on Sunday...

Radio troubles hindered Scott Dixon’s strategy in...

Scott Dixon finished in second place for the opening round of IndyCar’s...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

WRC drivers follow F1 in statement to FIA president

World Rally Championship drivers have penned a strongly-worded statement...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal ‘working hard behind the scenes' to...

Arsenal are stepping up their efforts to land a “world-class” talent...
43m ago from FreshArsenal.com

Joshua Kimmich to Arsenal: Bayern Munich contract...

Arsenal expert Charles Watts warns Gooners not to get too excited about...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.