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Originally Posted by paulyoung666
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Originally Posted by Graham
AIUI it wasn't simply a matter of the imposed loads, but also the amount of heat that was generated in the tyre and that it wasn't being dissipated sufficiently which was causing the junction between the side wall and the tread to fail.
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sorry but i still find it hard to believe that they could not forsee it happening  |
But that's with 20/20 hindsight.
The fact that they had to take the tyres to a laboratory to test before they even knew *what* had caused Ralph Schumacher's crash suggests that it was well outside their usual experiences.