{"id":18752,"date":"2013-07-11T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18752"},"modified":"2013-07-11T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:12:38","slug":"pirelli-drops-conservative-hungary-compound-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-drops-conservative-hungary-compound-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli drops &#8216;conservative&#8217; Hungary compound choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli has reversed its decision to bring harder tyres to the forthcoming Hungarian grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Pirelli-P-Zero-Medium-WHITE-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-Pirelli-tyre\/Pirelli-P-Zero-Medium-WHITE-5.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Lotus had questioned the F1 supplier&#8217;s &#8220;unusual&#8221; call in taking the same tyres to tight and twisty Hungary as it did to Bahrain and Silverstone.<\/p>\n<p>Chief engineer Alan Permane added that Pirelli&#8217;s choice was too &#8220;conservative&#8221;, even though teams like Mercedes and Red Bull pushed for it.<\/p>\n<p>But the BBC reports that Pirelli has now tweaked its compound choice for Hungary, replacing the &#8216;hard&#8217; with the &#8216;soft&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The tyre supplier said the decision follows the introduction of the all-new tyre construction in Hungary, combining the 2012 carcass with this year&#8217;s compounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change to the 2012 construction means that Hungary doesn&#8217;t require such a hard compound now,&#8221; said a spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli has reversed its decision to bring harder tyres to the forthcoming Hungarian grand prix. Lotus had questioned the F1 supplier&#8217;s &#8220;unusual&#8221; call in taking the same tyres to tight and twisty Hungary as it did to Bahrain and Silverstone. Chief engineer Alan Permane added that Pirelli&#8217;s choice was too &#8220;conservative&#8221;, even though teams like &#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":[697,5262,5340,2025,306,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752"}],"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=18752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18753,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18752\/revisions\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}