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Ricciardo: Shooting rubber pellets
Daniel Ricciardo has weighed in on the tyre degradation debate, saying it is so bad that cars are shooting up "rubber pellets".
Pirelli changed their compounds ahead of this season with the aim of creating more degradation and spicing up the show.
However, in the cold temperatures experienced so far in pre-season testing, the degradation has proven to be severe.
"They're providing a challenge, definitely," Ricciardo told NF1.
"It's still obviously early days and conditions are very cool - we probably won't come across many of these conditions during the racing calendar - but they're challenging at the moment.
"I'm not sure if they're doing what they thought...
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