Hamilton: Pirelli not to blame for Baku F1 tyre blowouts

Pirelli concluded its investigation🐻 into high-speed failures for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and As♋ton Martin driver Lance Stroll last week, revealing they related to “running conditions”.
A move from the FIA to increase tyre pressure and temperature checks a✃head of this weekend’s French Grand Prix has led to suggestions that teams could have been using clever tricks to get around Pirelli’🌠s mandatory parameters.
While Verstappen 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖💦结🤪果历史:insisted Red Bull had done nothing wrong, Hamilton appeared to indicate that the teams we🗹re ultimately at fault.
“Wherever there is a failure, they always put the pressures up, so that tells you something,” Hami🐈lton said.
“More often than not the tyres are not running at the pressures that are being asked. We didn’t have a problem with o💧ur tyres, I think they’ve done a great job with the tyres this year, they’re more robust than before.
“In this♓ pa💯rticular instance, I don’t think Pirelli are at fault.”
Hamilton stressed he is confident in the integrity of the 2021 tyres despite the dramas encountered in Ba🧸ku last time out and said Mercedes will continue to adhere to Pirelli’s prescriptions.
“At the end♔ of the day safety is always the priority,” he added. “And for me and for my team there have been clear rules and guidelines as ꩲto where we have to operate.
“So I was very surpr𒊎ised, naturꦆally, to see they had to clarify those… which obviously you can take what you want from that.
“I’m happy that they have acknowledged that they need to clarify it, and I think what’s really important from now is how they police it, as they’v𓆏e not been policing how the tyres are being used, tyre pressures, tyre temperatures, and we need to do better.
“It’s great 💦they’ve done a TD, but it’s the action now we need to s💦ee them follow through, and be really vigilant, to make sure it’s equal across the field.”

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