F1's sole tyre supplier on Wednesday apologised to Lewis Hamilton after the championship leader suffered a right-front failure during the recent Turkish grand prix. At the Monza test, head of track engineering operations Kees van de Grint reportedly walked into the McLaren garage and accepted Bridgestone' s side of responsibility for the delamination that dropped Hamilton from third to just fifth with15 laps to go in Istanbul. Following detailed examinations back in Tokyo, Bridgestone determined this week that excessive 'chunking' contributed to the failure, aswell as a so-far unexplained extra force impacting the damaged surface of the tyre. "It could have been a stone or the edge of a kerb that he unfortunately hit," Dutchman van de Grint told Auto Motor und Sport.
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