{"id":16237,"date":"2012-06-25T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16237"},"modified":"2012-06-30T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:04:00","slug":"f1-considering-tyre-blanket-ban-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-considering-tyre-blanket-ban-report\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 considering tyre blanket ban &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 is considering a ban on tyre-warming blankets, the German language publication Motorsport Magazin reports.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Kerstin Hasenbichler reported from Valencia that the potential 2013 ban is being discussed as part of the sport&#8217;s cost-cutting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The teams and the FIA are &#8220;currently in consultation to restructure regulations aimed at keeping costs as low as possible&#8221;, the writer said.<\/p>\n<p>A tyre blanket ban was considered a few years ago but shelved on safety grounds.<\/p>\n<p>It would, however, save money both on equipment expenditure and freight costs.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli&#8217;s Paul Hembery confirmed he would &#8220;welcome&#8221; the ban but warned it &#8220;would require a complete change of the composition&#8221; of the tyres.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ban should therefore be introduced over two years.<\/p>\n<p>For 2013, Hembery said, warmers for wet tyres could be banned, preceding a full ban for slicks the following season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 is considering a ban on tyre-warming blankets, the German language publication Motorsport Magazin reports. Journalist Kerstin Hasenbichler reported from Valencia that the potential 2013 ban is being discussed as part of the sport&#8217;s cost-cutting efforts. The teams and the FIA are &#8220;currently in consultation to restructure regulations aimed at keeping costs as low as &#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":[5262,5300,5340,1797,1404,3870],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237"}],"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=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16238,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions\/16238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}