Torro Rosso F1 car's tires decide to go on holiday

[nthfinity]

http://jalopnik.com/5518721/front-wheels-simultaneously-explode-off-f1-car

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[marcefer]

aren't the tires supposed to have strong wire to prevent them flying into the landscape?

[nthfinity]

aren't the tires supposed to have strong wire to prevent them flying into the landscape?

Yes, it is tremendously strong; however under the kind of forces that "sharp" metal suspension bits shredding the tethers, they didn't stand a snow flake's chance in Hell.