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Inside Line: Pirelli extreme Wet F1 tyres do not work

The paradox of modern Formula 1 is that a multi-million dollar car built by armies of top engineers, raced by the best drivers on the planet cannot be driven in the rain because the Pirelli extreme Wet tyres are simply not good enough. Hence the trepidation to run F1 races in the wet as we saw recently in Singapore, Japan, and Monaco before that; at Suzuka, on Sunday, they tried to start the race when it was clearly too early, perhaps driven by the criticism from Singapore, and look how that turned out to be. The reality is that few are prepared to talk about the below-par Pirelli extreme wets in particular, perhaps (I have no proof but hazard a guess) shackled by NDAs and confidentiality...
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