{"id":1525,"date":"2010-01-14T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2010-01-14T07:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T12:10:59","slug":"korean-tyre-makers-eye-f1-supply-contract-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/korean-tyre-makers-eye-f1-supply-contract-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean tyre makers eye F1 supply contract &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Two Korean tyre manufacturers are reportedly interested in becoming the sport&#8217;s new official tyre supplier for the three-year tenure beginning in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That information was reported by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, although it added that formula one chiefs were keen to tweak the rules in a bid to convince Bridgestone to stay.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese company announced last November that it would honour the last season of its contract this year and then pull out of F1 at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Auto Motor und Sport said one possible rule change is to simply make fewer tyres available to the teams per grand prix, therefore reducing Bridgestone&#8217;s reported annual F1 expenditure of about EUR100 million.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine did not name the two manufacturers interested in F1&#8217;s exclusive contract, but the major South Korean brands are Kumho, Hankook and Nexen.<\/p>\n<p>The report also said a decision about F1&#8217;s tyre future will be taken at a meeting on 22 January.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Korean tyre manufacturers are reportedly interested in becoming the sport&#8217;s new official tyre supplier for the three-year tenure beginning in 2011. \u00a0 That information was reported by Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport, although it added that formula one chiefs were keen to tweak the rules in a bid to convince Bridgestone to stay.<\/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":[53,3],"tags":[390,5262,392,388,391,393,389],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"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=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}