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Pirelli: ‘Still work to do' on wet tyres

Pirelli’s racing boss Paul Hembery has admitted that improvement is needed on their wet tyres for the 2017 season. Day Four of the first winter test at the Circuit de Catalunya has been dedicated to wet race simulation, well, until the track dries out in the Barcelona sun. But Hembery still believes it has been a meaningful task as Pirelli can now work on providing better tyres over the coming weeks. “We’ve learned what we needed to from the wet test in the sense that with the wider tyre we knew that the footprint is much greater, and the energy going in per square millimeter or centimeter is reduced,” Hembery told reporters in the paddock.  “So switching...
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