[WolfsburgRS]

I thinK that there are too many variables in the real (analog) world to avoid or conceive of every possible pitfall or problem. Problems happen, period. This is in racing and real life, and a modern racing tire has an insane amount of work asked of it. Sometimes people get it wrong. maybe it was engineering, maybe it was production, maybe it was something else that wasn't accounted for...supplier of materials, how the tires were handled by a shipper (not temp controlled) and so on. It could be down to a million things.