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Tyre choices surprise Lotus

Lotus technical chief James Allison has said Pirelli have "gone a bit more conservative than we might have expected" in opting against bringing the soft tyre to the forthcoming grands prix in Spain and Canada.While Formula 1's sole tyre supplier stopped some way short of overhauling their entire 2013 range for the start of the European season - instead announcing a tweak to the hardest slick compound - the Italian manufacturer's announcement did simultaneously reveal that the medium, rather than soft, tyre would be part of their allocations for Barcelona and Montreal. It will be the first time since Pirelli's re-entry into F1 in 2011 - and in the case of the Spanish GP the first...
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