The revised tyres introduced at the last round in Hungary will face a much stiffer test in this weekend’s 2013 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix and McLaren’s managing director Jonathan Neale believes Pirelli are right to take a conservative approach to the Spa race.Following the failures seen earlier in the season, notably at Silverstone, Pirelli reverted to their 2012 Kevlar-belted construction twinned with their 2013 compounds in Budapest. The tyres proved trouble free at the Hungaroring, but Spa-Francorchamps is far more demanding on rubber.“I think for this weekend all the teams will be reasonably alert that we are high load at Spa,” said Neale in a Vodafone...
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