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F1 in crisis mode after tyre failures

Formula One and tyre supplier Pirelli faced a full-on crisis on Sunday after the British Grand Prix came close to being stopped for safety reasons due to a spate of explosive high-speed blowouts. The spectre of Indianapolis 2005, when only six Bridgestone-shod cars competed in a farce of a US Grand Prix because all those equipped by tyre supplier Michelin could not compete safely, lurked in the background. There were also uneasy flashbacks to the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, when Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa suffered a near-fatal head injury after being struck by debris thrown up from a car in front. With television images broadcast around the world showing bucking cars scraping along...
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