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Mixed reaction from Pirelli to planned changes

The outcome of  Formula 1's Strategy Group meeting has been met with a mixed reaction from the sport's official tyre supplier, Pirelli. Two key factors relating to tyres came out of the lengthy discussion; allowing each team to nominate its own compounds for each race weekend and the move to wider rear-tyres. The former is aimed at opening up numerous different strategic possibilities by giving the teams another variable to play with. They will elect which two tyres they wish to use at each race out of a possible four. The proposal was branded "reckless" and "impossible" by Pirelli's Paul Hembery when it was floated in April by Force India, but the Strategy Group...
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