A new problem could be emerging for Pirelli, as the mere safety of its already controversial 2013 tyres is now called into question.<\/p>\n
The occurrence of tyre failures – or delaminations – appears to be on the rise this season, amid already widespread criticism of the heavily-degrading Pirellis.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never had two problems (failures) with tyres in one race.\u00a0 I don’t know what it is, but it’s too much,” Ferrari’s Felipe Massa is quoted as saying by Sky Italia after the Bahrain race.<\/p>\n
“Maybe there was debris on the track, but I didn’t feel any contact,” he added.<\/p>\n
Pirelli chief Paul Hembery said the Italian marque’s engineers had identified “cuts” on the failed tyre, “and we’re currently trying to find out what caused those cuts”.<\/p>\n
But Massa told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport that his first problem was caused “probably by delamination of the tread, like (Lewis) Hamilton in practice”.<\/p>\n
One theory doing the rounds is that Pirelli’s extreme, ‘show’-approach to degradation in 2013 has compromised the basic safety of the tyres.<\/p>\n
“It’s hard to say,” Massa responded, “it hasn’t happened to me before, and we’ve already had a few races this year, so no.<\/p>\n
“But we do need to understand what happened and then make sure we are putting any complaining in the right direction.”<\/p>\n
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