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Teams to face tougher tyre checks

Following the high-profile failures in Baku, from this weekend's French Grand Prix the teams will face tougher checks to ensure they are not manipulating tyre pressures. As ever, an F1 investigation has posed more questions than it has answered, yesterday's statement from Pirelli being no exception. Making clear that the tyres were not in any way responsible for the failures that saw Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll crash out of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the Italian manufacturer said that the cause of the failures 'was down to a circumferential break on the inner sidewall, which can be related to the running conditions of the tyre, in spite of the prescribed starting parameters (minimum...
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