Watching the unfolding dramas of the British Grand Prix, with tyres exploding at high speed on a regular basis, the over-riding emotions were anxiety and alarm - that the drivers' lives were being put at unacceptable risk. As the dust begins to settle, those feelings are beginning to shift to disbelief at how Formula 1 has managed to get itself into such an unacceptable situation. Some would - and doubtless will - call it a crisis. To many minds, that would not be an exaggeration. Perhaps the biggest concern is the fact that it should never have happened. It is not, after all, as if it is completely unexpected. As Lewis Hamilton pointed out after the race, tyres have been failing all...
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