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Pirelli warns against 2014 tyre switch

Pirelli has reacted to claims that Michelin may be poised to challenge its hold on F1's tyre contract by warning that making a change this late in the season would be disastrous for the sport.Rumours of Michelin's interest resurfaced at Spa-Francorchamps, with BBC Sport going as far as suggesting that secret talks had been staged with the FIA and a meeting arranged between Bernie Ecclestone and Michelin director of motorsport Pascal Couasnon.While it has been widely assumed that Michelin would not countenance a return to F1 before 2015, due to the scale of the production challenge involved in supplying all the teams on the grid, sources say that the company is confident that it could be...
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