Sentence examples for durable tyres from inspiring English sources

Michelin's failure to supply its teams with safe and durable tyres could now force the French tyre company's withdrawal from the sport.

Going into next year, there will be more races like Austin - one-stop strategies on more durable tyres.

Back then, Japan's Bridgestone was in its last year in F1 and its durable tyres had led some to conclude many of the races had become a little dull.

There are rumours that Pirelli will supply more durable tyres from the start of the European season in Spain next month - which they will not comment on for now - but is hard to imagine them deviating too far from a model they have pursued for three years.

Meanwhile, Red Bull have been campaigning hard - unsuccessfully so far - for Pirelli to produce more durable tyres, believing that the inherent superiority of their car is being held back by them being unable to exploit its full potential in races as a result of needing to look after the tyres.

At that stage Hamilton seemed unlikely to make the podium, as his second set of the more durable soft tyres had only lasted 16 laps, and when he made the mandatory switch to a set of supersofts on the 42nd lap he faced a  Herculean task to make them last 23.

Vettel and Webber, meanwhile, said they had got everything they could out of their Red Bulls, but they will be strong in the race and so will the Lotuses, which were fourth and fifth, and the Ferraris, which qualified on the more durable medium tyres.

On the first runs on the more durable medium tyres, Hamilton was 0.386secs quicker than Rosberg.

The world champion had started on the more durable 'soft' tyres as opposed to the 'super-softs' on the drivers at the front of the grid.

So Vettel and the two Mercedes drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, who qualified second and third, will have to make extremely early pit stops to switch to the much more durable 'medium' tyres.

Schumacher and Rosberg scraped into the top 10 shoot-out but did not set a time, running only briefly on the slower, more durable, 'soft' tyres so they could start the race on them.