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Massive tyre degradation ‘a big struggle’ for Williams F1
Massive tyre degradation ‘a big struggle' for Williams F1 Objectives: Aero evaluations, set-up and tyre work. Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: The weather has been uncharacteristically kind to us so far and is really quite hot. With the Pirelli prescriptions that we’re running at the moment the running pressures are very high and therefore the degradation is massive. So I hope we can resolve this with Pirelli. Everyone was degrading the option and the qualifying tyre between three tenths and half a second, which is an amazing amount of degradation. With Valtteri, we lost most of the session this afternoon due to a telemetry issue resulting in an ECU change....
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