Massive right hand corner speed chews up a left front tyre and when you add those super long high speed right handers even the hardest of tyres are begging for mercy very quickly.Īdd in that these tyres, according to Pirelli, on the television, had a life of 40 laps (I note they are now saying 50 laps to shield themselves from blame, hence the political bit) and the failures were at 37, 38 and 39 laps. We know that carbon fibre shards take no prisoners and will puncture tyres in a heartbeat and, yes, there had been a crash with bits everywhere and Kimi had misplaced a wing, but strangely all the punctures were to the left hand front the most hard working tyre on the Silverstone circuit. Although there were many on the idiot’s lantern (again, check the Urban Dictionary) at the time that talked about debris on the racetrack causing the failures but I’m going to call that political bull…t.
The tyre failures at Silverstone in the British Grand Prix last week. The reason I chose this subject will be obvious to any F1 fan.
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