1 “What you see here is the tyre preparation area in what we call the Tree House, a space between two trucks behind the team garage. This is where we store all the tyres we get from Pirelli before the weekend. Firstly, it’s a more consistent temperature compared with outside plus we don’t want the sunlight on the tyres because the UV [ultraviolet] isn’t good for the rubber. And it also keeps them from getting wet when it rains.
“These blankets are quite sophisticated. Over the
