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Hamilton praises 'more sensible' tyre guidelines

– Lewis Hamilton believes that Pirelli's altered tyre guidelines for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix are "much more sensible", after leading drivers expressed their concerns.In the wake of the failures Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel suffered at the Belgian Grand Prix, Pirelli initially asked teams to raise their tyre pressures by five psi at Monza.But that margin was reduced to just one psi for second practice, and Hamilton, who said on Thursday that the initial request would have been a "disaster", backed the change."I'm not really sure what the wear was like, but it was much more of a sensible change once they came down with it," said Hamilton,...
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