{"id":19075,"date":"2013-08-25T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19075"},"modified":"2013-08-25T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:45:58","slug":"ecclestone-confirms-michelin-eyeing-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-confirms-michelin-eyeing-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone confirms Michelin eyeing F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed reports from Spa-Francorchamps this week that Michelin wants to return to formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do want to get back in,&#8221; the F1 chief executive is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport, &#8220;but we have had contracts with Pirelli for some time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone is referring to commercial arrangements that have already been made with the sport&#8217;s existing supplier.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no such contract between Pirelli and F1&#8217;s governing FIA beyond 2013.<\/p>\n<p>That has ramped up the pressure on the already-frustrated Italian company, who said moves to change F1&#8217;s supplier now would be &#8220;farcical&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Michelin wanted to return why didn&#8217;t they come out and say so last September?&#8221; motor sport boss Paul Hembery told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at Spa-Francorchamps, where after Friday&#8217;s punctures for Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, he had to show photographs to journalists to prove the problems had been simply caused by debris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t even get a flat tyre now?&#8221; Hembery is quoted by Autosprint.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed reports from Spa-Francorchamps this week that Michelin wants to return to formula one. &#8220;They do want to get back in,&#8221; the F1 chief executive is quoted by Auto Motor und Sport, &#8220;but we have had contracts with Pirelli for some time.&#8221; Ecclestone is referring to commercial arrangements that have already been &#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":[59,5262,5340,78,1797,1404,90],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075"}],"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=19075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19076,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19075\/revisions\/19076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}