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Pirelli: F1 ignored our request to limit laps

Pirelli says Sebastian Vettel's high-speed tyre failure towards the end of the Belgian Grand Prix wouldn't have happened had its proposal from 2013 to limit the maximum number of laps a tyre should be used had been adopted. The Italian firm has come under scrutiny after Vettel vented his fury in the wake of a dramatic tyre failure less than two laps from the end of the Belgian Grand Prix, with the German being backed up by Nico Rosberg, who suffered his own high-speed – albeit unrelated - puncture during free practice. The circumstance of Vettel's tyre failure is focused on the fact he had completed 28 laps on the medium compound after adopting an alternative one-stop strategy in an...
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