{"id":1811,"date":"2010-01-27T05:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=1811"},"modified":"2010-01-27T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:32:45","slug":"top-ten-must-use-qualifying-tyres-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/top-ten-must-use-qualifying-tyres-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten must use qualifying tyres in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The top ten qualifiers in 2010 will have to start grands prix with the same tyres used at the end of Q3, according to reports.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reports, including in Switzerland&#8217;s Motorsport Aktuell, the Spanish sports newspaper Marca and Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, reveal that the decision was made at a recent meeting of the teams association FOTA.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Previously, the top ten could decide to change to a different set of their allocated tyres for the start of the race, with the only stipulation being that both types of compounds be used at least once.<\/p>\n<p>Motorsport Aktuell says the move, to be rubber-stamped by the F1 Commission and World Motor Sport Council next week, is to add a strategic element in order to make races more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Marca said that &#8220;most&#8221; of the teams at the FOTA meeting voted for the rule change and that the approval of the subsequent bodies is &#8220;likely to be a formality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Turun Sanomat said teams will have to consider whether to use soft tyres for a high grid position, because the same tyres need to be used with the hefty initial race fuel load.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top ten qualifiers in 2010 will have to start grands prix with the same tyres used at the end of Q3, according to reports. \u00a0 Reports, including in Switzerland&#8217;s Motorsport Aktuell, the Spanish sports newspaper Marca and Finland&#8217;s Turun Sanomat, reveal that the decision was made at a recent meeting of the teams association &#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":[5262,118,495],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811"}],"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=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}