Fernando Alonso is hoping the German Grand Prix this weekend won’t be blighted by the same tyre blow-outs that marred the race at Silverstone five days ago. Alonso was fortunate to finish third at the British GP, suffering a tyre failure just as he came into the pits for his first stop, and later narrowly avoiding Sergio Perez’s McLaren, when the Mexican suffered a left rear blow-out in the closing stages. Looking to the ninth round in the 2013 FIA F1 World Championship, the Ferrari pilot added that they just have to ‘trust’ the changes made by Pirelli to the tyres will be effective. “After what we saw in Silverstone [with the tyres], we now go to the Nurburgring, confident we can...
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