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Ferrari Would Have been ‘Worse Off’ with Normal Tyres in Spain – Vettel

Sebastian Vettel ultimately feels Pirelli Motorsport made the right to bring updated tyre compounds with thinner treads to the Spanish Grand Prix, believing his Scuderia Ferrari team would have been even worse off had they brought the standard tyres to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The German was able to run back-to-back tests with both the usual tyre and the thinner tread tyre on the first day of the post-Spanish Grand Prix on Tuesday, and after initially questioning the decision of Pirelli to bring the different tyre last weekend, the test underlined just why the tyre manufacturer did it, and it was ultimately Ferrari who were at fault for not getting the same kind of tyre life out...
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