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Drivers demand action after tyre blow-outs

Nico Rosberg and Romain Grosjean have echoed Sebastian Vettel's calls for safer tyres following two blow-outs at the Belgian Grand Prix. Ferrari driver Vettel launched a scathing attack on Pirelli at Spa on Sunday after he suffered a high-speed tyre failure on the penultimate lap. The German, who was P3 at the time, did a 28-lap stint on the medium rubber, but his right-rear blew up with just one lap to go. It came just a couple of days after Rosberg also had a spectacular tyre explosion in practice. 'Things like that are not allowed to happen - full stop. If it happens 200 metres earlier I'm not standing here now, I'm with 300 [kph] stuck in Eau Rouge, so I don't know what...
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