{"id":11398,"date":"2011-03-09T06:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2011-03-09T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:34:47","slug":"new-rule-solves-tyre-test-dilemma-hembery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/new-rule-solves-tyre-test-dilemma-hembery\/","title":{"rendered":"New rule solves tyre test dilemma &#8211; Hembery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the rules in 2011 solve Pirelli&#8217;s dilemma about how to continue developing its F1 tyres.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian marque used a 2009 Toyota and testers Nick Heidfeld, Pedro de la Rosa and Romain Grosjean to develop this season&#8217;s tyres, but decided that the car is now too old to be useful to the latest generation of single seaters.<\/p>\n<p>The World Motor Sport Council on Tuesday approved a rule tweak so that experimental tyres can be tested by the teams during Friday practice sessions at grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without this potential opportunity we would be unable to test with a current car and would be relying solely on a previous generation vehicle,&#8221; said Pirelli&#8217;s Paul Hembery in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he admitted he was not happy on Tuesday after hoping for warmer weather to prove the durability of the tyres to concerned teams and drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s even colder than the last time we were here,&#8221; the Briton told La Gazzetta dello Sport.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the rules in 2011 solve Pirelli&#8217;s dilemma about how to continue developing its F1 tyres. The Italian marque used a 2009 Toyota and testers Nick Heidfeld, Pedro de la Rosa and Romain Grosjean to develop this season&#8217;s tyres, but decided that the car is now too old to be useful to the latest &#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\/11398"}],"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=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11399,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}