Pirelli responds…

  Posted on July 3, 2013 By johnpierre rivera

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I have posted links to Peter Windsor’s site before and have referenced Mr. Windsor on quite a few occasions, I am a big fan of his work. This will be the first time I actually do not write the post my self, however because i wanted to get this information out to my followers asap. -jp-

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I like Pirelli’s response not only to the FIA statement of yesterday but also to the specific tyre problems we saw at Silverstone.

Milan, July 2, 2013 – After exhaustive analysis of the tyres used at Silverstone, Pirelli has concluded that the causes of the failures were principally down to a combination of the following factors: 1) Rear tyres that were mounted the wrong way round: in other words, the right hand tyre being placed where the left hand one should be and vice versa, on the cars that suffered failures. The tyres supplied this year have an asymmetric structure, which means that they are not designed to be interchangeable. The sidewalls are designed in such a way to deal with specific loads on the internal and external sides of the tyre. So swapping the tyres round has an effect on how they work in certain conditions. In particular, the…

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