Paul Hembery has played down reports Pirelli might have to go wheel-to-wheel with Michelin in formula one next year. There are rumours the apparently Jean Todt-supported French marque Michelin, last ...
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Alonso hopes for faster Ferrari ‘after the summer’
Fernando Alonso is not expecting to “surprise” with world-beating pace this weekend in Hungary. The Spaniard does, however, think Ferrari has ended its recent trend of stagnant development, and hopes ...
Read More »Criticism ‘a deterrent’ for Pirelli successors – Surer
F1 teams will only have themselves to blame if they are left without tyres next year, according to a leading commentator. Pirelli’s increasingly vocal Paul Hembery has warned that the ...
Read More »Pirelli boss sentenced for espionage
Pirelli chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera has been sentenced to jail for twenty months. The Financial Times reports that a Milan court found him guilty, but suspended his jail sentence, in ...
Read More »Alonso not complaining amid Pirelli tyre shakeup
Fernando Alonso has refused to criticise the sequence of mid-season changes to the construction of Pirelli’s 2013 tyres. Before Silverstone, F1’s Italian supplier wanted to drop its steel-belted construction in ...
Read More »Red Bull not ruling out Mercedes-like Pirelli test
Red Bull is not ruling out following Mercedes’ lead and conducting a private test with F1 tyre supplier Pirelli. Mercedes and Pirelli were reprimanded by the FIA recently, after news ...
Read More »Pirelli drops ‘conservative’ Hungary compound choice
Pirelli has reversed its decision to bring harder tyres to the forthcoming Hungarian grand prix. Lotus had questioned the F1 supplier’s “unusual” call in taking the same tyres to tight ...
Read More »FIA test rules a blow for Mercedes, Ferrari
The FIA has bad news for Mercedes and Ferrari this week. Earlier, it was suggested next week’s young driver test at Silverstone might be extended by a day, becoming a ...
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