{"id":12186,"date":"2011-05-07T06:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2011-05-07T06:31:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:31:31","slug":"pirelli-wants-teams-to-get-more-wet-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-wants-teams-to-get-more-wet-tyres\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli wants teams to get more wet tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli boss Paul Hembery is calling for a rules rethink regarding the supply of wet tyres to formula one teams.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren limited its running almost entirely in Friday&#8217;s rain-affected morning practice session in Turkey, amid weather reports that the bad weather could stick around all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, qualifying at Istanbul Park is expected to be dry, but Hembery told Auto Motor und Sport that if a race weekend is entirely wet, teams are likely to run out of wet tyres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know there is a rule, but in this case, we needn&#8217;t be more catholic than the pope,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there are three days of rain it would be tight,&#8221; added Hembery.\u00a0 &#8220;The teams would be for it (a rule change) and surely the FIA as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F1 would look pretty ridiculous if drivers have to retire from the race because they have no tyres left,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli boss Paul Hembery is calling for a rules rethink regarding the supply of wet tyres to formula one teams. McLaren limited its running almost entirely in Friday&#8217;s rain-affected morning practice session in Turkey, amid weather reports that the bad weather could stick around all weekend. In fact, qualifying at Istanbul Park is expected to &#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":[5262,5300,5340,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186"}],"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=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12187,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions\/12187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}