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Ricciardo: They need to give us more wet weather tyres

Only five cars did timed laps during the Japanese Grand Prix FP2 session, as rain fell heavily and constantly over Suzuka circuit prompting Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo to call for more Pirelli wet tyres to be allocated to teams next year. The conditions were such that the Pirelli intermediate tyres were not up to the task and the use of the the blue band wet tyres would have been more appropriate. Ricciardo suggests that drivers opted not to run in the soaking session to save the wet tyres for later on in the weekend when rain is also expected to fall. Thus denying themselves valuable track time on the blue band tyres that they may need to use during the course of the weekend,...
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