{"id":18848,"date":"2013-07-23T07:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T11:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2013-07-23T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T11:21:51","slug":"criticism-a-deterrent-for-pirelli-successors-surer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/criticism-a-deterrent-for-pirelli-successors-surer\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism &#8216;a deterrent&#8217; for Pirelli successors &#8211; Surer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 teams will only have themselves to blame if they are left without tyres next year, according to a leading commentator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Pirelli-Formula1-2013-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-Pirelli-tyre\/Pirelli-Formula1-2013-4.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Pirelli&#8217;s increasingly vocal Paul Hembery has warned that the sport should &#8220;find someone else&#8221; if the rules and the criticism are not tempered to better treat F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Surer, a former driver from Switzerland who is now a prominent German-speaking commentator, said alternate marques like Michelin and Bridgestone could enter F1 &#8220;at short notice&#8221; to replace a departing Pirelli &#8220;if they wanted to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But would they want to?<\/p>\n<p>Surer pointed out that Pirelli&#8217;s tenure since 2011, and the last few months in particular, have been characterised by extreme criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was not very clever of the teams,&#8221; Surer told Germany&#8217;s Sport1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After all, F1 costs a tyre manufacturer a lot of money, but if all they will get is bad publicity, then that is absolutely a deterrent,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 teams will only have themselves to blame if they are left without tyres next year, according to a leading commentator. Pirelli&#8217;s increasingly vocal Paul Hembery has warned that the sport should &#8220;find someone else&#8221; if the rules and the criticism are not tempered to better treat F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier. Marc Surer, a former &#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":[390,5262,5340,4144,78,1797,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848"}],"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=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18849,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions\/18849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}