“These are the main elements collected in this short period of time.” We have to receive the telemetry from them but what they told us is that there was no warning, no vibration. “Another element is that there was no sign or anything warning according to the teams. The rear-left tyre is not the most stressed tyre in Baku because talking about the rear tyres, it’s obviously the rear right. “When there was the red flag and Lewis came to the pitlane and changed the set of tyres, we found the cut in the tyre. So the tyre was still in one piece, it’s just the tread is cut. The cut is quite deep, probably 6-7cm, but did not cut the construction. “We found a cut on the inside shoulder of a rear-left tyre used by Lewis Hamilton in the same stint. “I believe I can exclude that the failures were due to tyre wear,” said Isola. Isola said that the cut on Hamilton’s tyre “clearly came from debris” given its shape, but it was not deep enough to cause a loss of pressure. This is for several reasons, including the lack of warning before a sudden loss of pressure, the fact there was still adequate tread in the remains of both tyres, others running longer on sets of hards and that cuts were discovered in other tyres, including Lewis Hamilton’s rear-left from the second stint. Pirelli has gathered remains of the tyres to conduct a thorough investigation, but the company’s Formula 1 boss Mario Isola has ruled out the possibility of a wear-related failure. ![]() ![]() Stroll was running fourth and on the verge of pitting when he suffered his failure, having put 30 laps on the set of hards with which he started the race. Verstappen was leading the race and completing his 34th lap on his set of hard tyres when the left rear let go and pitched him into the wall. Pirelli’s preliminary investigation into the cause of the left-rear tyre failure that cost Max Verstappen victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and the similar problem that put Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll into the wall, excludes the possibility of either being caused by wear and points to debris as the suspected cause.
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