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Seidl: It was a sudden death of the tyre

It was a scary moment when the left front Pirelli on the McLaren of Carlos Sainz decided to delaminate itself, without warning, on the final lap of the 2020 British Grand Prix, a similar fate suffered by Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton at the front of the field. After a largely mundane and predictable race at Silverstone, the final laps proved to be decisive as Valtteri Bottas was in trouble with his front left disintegrating and causing him to go off track, and by the time the dust had settled a sure second place turned to 11th for the Finn. Race winner Lewis Hamilton suffered a similar fate on his Mercedes but nursed it to win the race. Not so for Sainz, what looked like a slam-dunk...
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