Silverstone 2013: Punctures and delaminations, the Pirelli drama in Great Britain

Jean-Éric Vergne left his fireproof suit a long time ago. He sips fruit juice in front of a television screen which makes him relive his incident (one of his Pirelli tires failed him). He stands up and touches the screen with his index finger. “ Look at! End of straight line, flat out. The tire suddenly blows! " Impressive. A sudden explosion and everything goes to shreds. A border? Carbon debris? A puncture? “ No, I haven't touched anything, rolled over anything, done anything wrong! I held my position well on the two Lotuses and I had the perfect strategy. The incident itself? It feels like you're running over a mine and it explodes under the wheel. The car jerks and nothing responds. We become passengers. If its wheels are straight at the time of the explosion, it continues more or less straight, if they are turned, the car spins as we saw with Massa. We hold the wheel as best we can, we hold our buttocks and we look at where the ride is going to stop, continues the driver Toro Rosso. Je suis rev