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Under-fire Pirelli concedes changes needed for the future

"I've received a tweet saying 'Four stops isn't a motor race - it's a bus journey!'" quipped Sky Sports F1 co-commentator Martin Brundle at the end of the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend in Barcelona. It was a harsh comment - but few were disagreeing. In fact, even the tyre manufacturer itself appeared inclined to agree. Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery admitted on Twitter that on this occasion the manufacturer had misjudged the amount of tyre degradation that the teams would experience at the Circuit de Catalunya, after even their hardest pairing of compounds - the P Zero Orange hard and P Zero White medium - had been found wanting. "We aim for 2-3 pit...
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