Mario Isola says Pirelli has not received any requests from any Formula 1 team in 2019 to switch back to their 2018 tyre specification despite worries about the current domination from Mercedes AMG Motorsport. Mercedes has taken all seven of the available race victories so far with reigning Drivers’ champion Lewis Hamilton taking five of them to comfortably lead team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the standings by twenty-nine points, and following their most recent victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, concerns are being raised that the 2019 configuration of tyre is perhaps too suited to the W10 chassis. Pirelli, whose 2019 tyres are 0.4mm thinner than in 2018 in an effort to reduce...
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