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Nico Rosberg has
given Mercedes its first victory in the British Grand Prix since 1955 with
first place at Silverstone.
The were a number of rear-left tyre failures during the race, which affected
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Jean-Eric Vergne
(Toro Rosso) and Sergio Perez (McLaren). Pirelli engineers will investigate
closely the cause of the failures ahead of next week’s German Grand Prix.
Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery said: “There have obviously been
some issues with rear-left tyre failures which we have not seen before. We
are taking the situation very seriously and we are currently investigating
all tyres to determine the cause as soon as possible, ahead of the next
Grand Prix in Germany. At the moment, we can't really say much more until we
have fully investigated and analysed all of these incidents, which is our
top priority. However, we can exclude that the new bonding process, which we
introduced at this race, is at cause for the tyre failures we have seen
today. There might be some aspect to this circuit that impacts specifically
on the latest version of our 2013 specification tyres but at this point we
do not want to speculate but will now put together all the evidence to find
out what happened and then take appropriate next steps should these be
required.” |
