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Mercedes: 'Unlikely' tyre problems have been fixed
Mercedes was spared in Barcelona the tyre blistering issues that dogged its previous race at Silverstone, but chief strategist James Vowles warns the problem is "unlikely" to have been permanently solved. Mercedes was out-strategised and outpaced by Red Bull and Max Verstappen in F1's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, in which Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas struggled with tyre wear at the high-speed Northamptonshire track. There were no such troubles at the Circuit de Catalunya last weekend where Hamilton resumed his winning ways, a victory achieved in part thanks to the fundamental work conducted by Mercedes as it addressed its tyre woes. "Clearly following Silverstone,...
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