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Hamilton: Baku tyre "nightmare" makes no sense

Mercedes F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has expressed his bewilderment at the tyre situation at Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, as he insisted that the compounds brought to Baku by Pirelli are too hard. The on-track action on Friday at the Baku street circuit proved rather chaotic, with FP2 in particular featuring near-constant yellow flags as many F1 drivers repeatedly struggled to make corners and took to the track's run-off areas. Hamilton, who himself languished in 10th in FP2 after failing to get a lap together on the softest available compound – supersofts - believes that the high prevalence of driver error is down to tyres. “The grip is very bad. I think it's bad for everyone,”...
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