Pirelli: The assembly process is not to blame

One case involving Pirelli follows another. After private testing of Mercedes carried out in Barcelona where the Italian manufacturer received a reprimand, the supplier of the F1 finds itself in trouble again following a series of unprecedented delaminations that occurred on the single-seaters of Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Jean-Eric Vergne and Sergio Pérez at the British Grand Prix. If the FIA ​​summoned Pirelli and all the teams this week to find a solution, engineers under the direction of Paul Hembery are seeking to identify the source of the problem before the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring this Sunday.

“There have clearly been problems with left rear tire failures, unheard of until now”, admits the sporting director of Pirelli. “We are taking the situation very seriously and are currently investigating all tires to determine the causes as quickly as possible, before the German Grand Prix. Currently, we cannot really say more until we have fully investigated and analyzed all of these incidents. This represents an absolute priority. However, we can exclude the responsibility of the new assembly process, introduced in this race, for the failures seen today. These could be some aspects of this circuit specifically affecting the latest version of our 2013 specification tires, but at this stage we do not wish to speculate, and we will gather the evidence to find out what happened. product and take the necessary measures, if required. »

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