Pirelli has responded to Sebastian Vettel's damning appraisal of its tyres following a dramatic high-speed failure towards the end of the Belgian Grand Prix, saying it was Ferrari's fault for pushing it to the end its wear-life. Vettel was running third with less than two laps of the race remaining, the German climbing the order after Ferrari put him on a one-stop strategy that would have seen him complete 29 laps on a single set of medium rubber. However, the right-rear tyre would fail at high-speed on the Kemmel Straight, Vettel fortunate to keep the Ferrari pointing in the right direction as he wrestled with it. Prompting his first non-score of the season, a furious Vettel proceeded to...
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