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Williams: FIA measurement was wrong
Williams says it has no idea as to why the FIA's tyre temperature reading on Felipe Massa's car showed it to be too hot, after revealing its own sensors had it comfortably within the limits. Massa was excluded from eighth place in the Brazilian Grand Prix after the FIA discovered that the right rear tyre on his Williams was 27 degrees over the limit allowed. Williams performance chief Rob Smedley said the outfit is baffled as to why the FIA's infra-red gun reading showed the tyre to be at 137 degrees, because its own data suggested the tyre was at 107. "We have two independent sensors, the first one is the PT1000 which sits inside the tyre blanket and tells us what the surface...
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