In the wake of Vettel and Rosberg’s tyre blowouts in Spa, I must give credit to Pirelli for being extremely professional in their investigations and suggestions thereof – or at least one suggestion. Unsurprisingly, Pirelli’s self-investigation concluded that the FIA and Ferrari are to blame for Vettel’s blowouts, not Pirelli themselves. Unless of course I have read and interpreted the report wrong! Pirelli claim that the failures at Spa were ‘results of exceptional circumstances’ of excessive tyre wear combined with the effect of debris on track. This means that Pirelli passed the blame on to Ferrari for their impressive one-stop strategy that almost saw Vettel on the podium...
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