The issue was highlighted when strips of rubber started flying off Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso less than 40 laps into the race.

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Morris had a supply of automobile hose clamps and random strips of rubber lying on one of the dusty shelves he had built in the half-basement, not far from where they would have to be used most of the time.

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We were right on the cusp of the electronic age and had begun to use phototypesetting machines, but the paper was still composed physically on cardboard flats with film strips, X-Acto knives, hot wax, and rubber rollers.

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Raw rubber is heated and extruded on to the drum, followed by successive layers of steel wires and strips as the tyre takes shape.

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