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Teams reject switch to 2018-spec tyres

The ten team bosses, together with a number of drivers, met with the FIA and Pirelli ahead of this morning's opening session as a number of teams sought to have the Italian manufacturer revert to the 2018-spec thicker treaded tyres. The move follows the failure of a number of teams to get their tyres into the correct operating window, which in turn has caused them to blame almost all their misfortune this year on the tyres. One team that has got the tyres to work correctly is Mercedes, and understandably the German team was against the move back to the 2018-spec tyres which would have required the support of seven teams. Representing the drivers were Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel,...
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