After the tyre problems at Silverstone, Pirelli gave the teams a different specification of tyre for the German GP only, with a view to 2012 construction and 2013 performance from Hungary onwards.
Whether the tyres could hold on or not was the big question on everyone's mind, along with the relative performance changes for each team.
From practice it seemed that Mercedes could have trouble coping with the heatwave at the Nurburgring, but McLaren appeared to have moved forward and Force...
