{"id":19073,"date":"2013-08-24T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19073"},"modified":"2013-08-24T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T11:56:53","slug":"pirelli-ends-spa-boycott-threat-amid-michelin-return-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-ends-spa-boycott-threat-amid-michelin-return-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli ends Spa boycott threat amid Michelin return rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli on Saturday said metal debris, not a tyre design flaw, caused the rear failures and cuts seen at Spa-Francorchamps on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Pirelli-Tyres-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-Pirelli-tyre\/Pirelli-Tyres-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The latest tyre problems revived memories of June&#8217;s tyre-exploding chaos at Silverstone, and reportedly pushed the drivers back to the brink of boycott.<\/p>\n<p>But Pirelli said on Saturday morning that the punctures had been traced to a piece of metal debris on the circuit that had fallen from Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s Lotus.<\/p>\n<p>Motor sport boss Paul Hembery told reporters: &#8220;There are certainly no tyre-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen no signs of fatigue and from our point of view there&#8217;s no reason to be concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Media reports said the Pirelli investigation had allayed the nervous drivers&#8217; fears.<\/p>\n<p>But it hasn&#8217;t stopped rumours Michelin, reportedly backed politically by FIA president Jean Todt, is poised to return to F1 to replace Pirelli in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said the French marque has already held talks with the governing body, while a Michelin spokesman confirmed the company is still &#8220;interested&#8221; in F1 but would want a shift away from the new era of heavy tyre degradation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli on Saturday said metal debris, not a tyre design flaw, caused the rear failures and cuts seen at Spa-Francorchamps on Friday. The latest tyre problems revived memories of June&#8217;s tyre-exploding chaos at Silverstone, and reportedly pushed the drivers back to the brink of boycott. But Pirelli said on Saturday morning that the punctures had &#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":[2037,5262,5300,5340,284,78,1797,1404,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073"}],"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=19073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19074,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19073\/revisions\/19074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}