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Häkkinen: If you're going to suffer a high-speed tyre failure…

Mika Hakkinen reflects on the British Grand Prix which turned dramatic when Pirelli tyres began delaminating and disintegrating late in the race and remember similar incidents from his own career in the top flight. Tyre failure at high speed is something every Formula 1 driver wants to avoid, and Sunday's fourth round at Silverstone reminded everyone about this in the most dramatic way possible. The Mighty Finn had his fair share of big scary during his career that earned him two F1 world titles with McLaren and wrote after the race at Silverstone in his Unibet column, 'I suffered a number of tyre failures during my career, two of which were catastrophic. The first caused my serious...
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