{"id":11375,"date":"2011-03-07T06:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11375"},"modified":"2011-03-07T06:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T11:47:29","slug":"pirelli-says-tyres-not-designed-for-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-says-tyres-not-designed-for-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli says tyres not designed for Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli did not design its 2011 tyre, or the product&#8217;s forthcoming development programme, with any specific driver in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Some drivers, notably Felipe Massa and Michael Schumacher, struggled on last year&#8217;s Bridgestones and saw the arrival of Pirelli as an opportunity to race on tyres more suited to their driving style.<\/p>\n<p>So far, drivers who favour stronger front grip and oversteer are reportedly enjoying the characteristics of the Pirellis.<\/p>\n<p>But the Italian marque&#8217;s motor sport boss Paul Hembery insists: &#8220;We did not design our tyres for the specific needs of a driver like Michael Schumacher in mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hembery revealed that when the German did a race simulation in Barcelona recently, he stopped three times for new tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the strategists but also for the drivers, the races are now an even greater challenge,&#8221; the Briton told Auto Bild.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli did not design its 2011 tyre, or the product&#8217;s forthcoming development programme, with any specific driver in mind. Some drivers, notably Felipe Massa and Michael Schumacher, struggled on last year&#8217;s Bridgestones and saw the arrival of Pirelli as an opportunity to race on tyres more suited to their driving style. So far, drivers who &#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":[5262,130,5340,92,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375"}],"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=11375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11376,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11375\/revisions\/11376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}