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Aston Martin insists it followed Pirelli’s F1 tyre measures before Baku blowout

Stroll crashed out of fourth place on Lap 29 of the Azerbaijan GP when he suffered a dramatic left-rear tyre blowout, the first of two such incidents that overshadowed a crazy race in Baku. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen lost the lead of the race due to a similar scary failure at 200mph along the Baku’s long main straight. F1’s tyre supplier Pirelli concluded its investigation and published its findings on Tuesday, saying that both tyres suffered “a circumferential break on the inner sidewall” that “related to the running conditions of the tyre”.  Pirelli’s early theory that debris was to blame was ultimately incorrect, while the failures were also not caused by fatigue....
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