{"id":10701,"date":"2011-01-25T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10701"},"modified":"2011-01-25T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:40:57","slug":"pirelli-wants-newer-f1-car-for-private-tyre-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-wants-newer-f1-car-for-private-tyre-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli wants newer F1 car for private tyre testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli and the F1 teams are looking into options so that the sport&#8217;s new tyre supplier can test with a fully up-to-date car.<\/p>\n<p>In its development preparations for the 2011 season, the Italian marque has used a 2009-specification Toyota run by the departed F1 team.<\/p>\n<p>But with the 2011-generation cars now set to be launched and tested, Pirelli has reportedly decided that its future testing work should not be done with an outdated two-year-old mule.<\/p>\n<p>And Italy&#8217;s Autosprint reports that Pirelli has decided it needs to use a fully-modern F1 car rather than a &#8220;hybrid&#8221; solution.<\/p>\n<p>Another option rejected on cost grounds is Toyota&#8217;s offer to update the TF109 in the wind tunnel so that it better reflects the behaviour of the 2011 cars.<\/p>\n<p>And some teams are reportedly worried about giving away an advantage should Pirelli test a car built by any of the active F1 outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Autosprint said two options are under review by the teams association FOTA.\u00a0 One of them is to use an external team to run a test car designed by an active competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is that, for example if Pirelli schedules seven private track outings, the cars of the seven highest-placed teams are alternatively used for the tyre testing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli and the F1 teams are looking into options so that the sport&#8217;s new tyre supplier can test with a fully up-to-date car. In its development preparations for the 2011 season, the Italian marque has used a 2009-specification Toyota run by the departed F1 team. But with the 2011-generation cars now set to be launched &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10702,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}