{"id":18276,"date":"2013-05-14T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18276"},"modified":"2013-05-14T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:01:12","slug":"pirelli-boss-says-new-f1-contract-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-boss-says-new-f1-contract-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli boss says new F1 contract coming &#8216;soon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli is now well on the road to securing a new contract to continue as F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier beyond 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Marco-Tronchetti-Provera-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Marco-Tronchetti-Provera-1.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/>That is the claim of the Italian company&#8217;s chairman and chief executive Marco Tronchetti Provera.<\/p>\n<p>In Bahrain, Pirelli&#8217;s F1 chief Paul Hembery had hinted that, with Pirelli&#8217;s existing contract expiring, a deadline was now fast approaching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a time scale and I&#8217;m pretty sure I know what it is,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday in Barcelona, the Briton said negotiations had continued in the days and weeks since Bahrain, and some progress had been made.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are moving in the right direction,&#8221; confirmed Tronchetti Provera, according to reports in the Italian media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the conditions for the signing of a new contract with formula one have already been established.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will not take much more and I hope it will happen soon,&#8221; he added.\u00a0 &#8220;There will be news in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Pirelli enjoys its collaboration because working in F1 &#8220;produces important results for the research of the products and materials for road cars&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli is now well on the road to securing a new contract to continue as F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier beyond 2013. That is the claim of the Italian company&#8217;s chairman and chief executive Marco Tronchetti Provera. In Bahrain, Pirelli&#8217;s F1 chief Paul Hembery had hinted that, with Pirelli&#8217;s existing contract expiring, a deadline was now &#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":[5262,5340,1459,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276"}],"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=18276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18277,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18276\/revisions\/18277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}