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Sainz plays down 18-inch tyre test crash reports

Mar.1 Carlos Sainz has played down reports that he crashed last week whilst testing Ferrari's new-for-2022 18-inch tyres. Eyewitnesses claimed that Ferrari's new Spanish driver crashed during the Pirelli test at Jerez. 'I don't know how much I can say about that according to the contract,' Sainz is quoted by the Swiss newspaper Blick. 'But if something happened, I would say that it was very insignificant,' he smiled. Before the 18-inch debut, Pirelli has tweaked the design of the current 13-inch tyres for 2021. When the drivers tried the 2021 tyres late last season, many of them were heavily critical. 'This was a completely normal reaction,' Pirelli boss Mario Isola told Auto Motor und...
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