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Wolff: Have Pirelli given us a different tyre to the others?

Although immediately dismissing it, Team boss Toto Wolff admits even he contemplated a conspiracy theory amid Mercedes' mysterious below par showing in the Singapore Grand Prix. Wild rumours that Pirelli deliberately supplied the wrong tyre compounds to the reigning world champions as payback for the Monza pressure saga did the rounds in the paddock last weekend. 'For a moment I thought ‘Have Pirelli given us a different tyre to the others?' I'm not saying that it happened, just that I thought it,' said Wolff, as this would explain Mercedes' sudden loss of pace. 'I don't remember any time in my formula one career when something like this happened,' said world champion Lewis...
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