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Pirelli abandons plan to bring new tyre to Malaysian GP

Pirelli has abandoned its plans to bring a revised tyre construction to the Malaysian GP after it was trialled on Friday at both Spa and Monza. The new construction was introduced to improve resistance to multiple impacts with kerbs and so on, and teams were given the possibility to try it as an extra experimental tyre in Belgium and Italy. Following factory tests, Pirelli promised that the revised tyre was 'transparent,' and thus there would be no impact on actual performance if the tyre was fast tracked into a race weekend proper at Sepang. However, some teams found that not to be the case. Although plans for a 2016 introduction have been canned, Pirelli believes that it gleaned a lot of...
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