Hamilton's Driving

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Lewis's choice of wording is not proof for it being a tyre 'blow out' in the sense you are suggesting. He says in the article he doesn't know what caused it. A rim failure can cause a tyre blow out, and the evidence from onboards and pictures of the tyre after the incident suggest the problem came from the rim area. The tyre is intact and not blown apart, so the weakness did not come from the tyre itself IMO.

I thought I saw something breakaway from the tyre rim area a split second before the failure. I haven't seen the footage since, but "something broke" was my first reaction, not tyre failure.