{"id":2178,"date":"2010-02-06T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2010-02-06T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T13:51:27","slug":"bridgestone-to-keep-green-markings-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bridgestone-to-keep-green-markings-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone to keep green markings for 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bridgestone will continue to distinguish its tyre compounds in 2010 by painting green circles around the edges of the sidewalls.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The practice was a compromise given last year&#8217;s switch from grooved to slick tyres, but some pointed out that white paint would be a better choice for visibility.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have used the colour green as it shows our support of the FIA&#8217;s Make Cars Green campaign,&#8221; said the Japanese supplier&#8217;s technical manager Tetsuro Kobayashi.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgestone also said a compound &#8216;gap&#8217; would be left between its tyre allocations in 2010, despite some heavy criticism last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will not be possible at some races however, such as Monaco, where it is important to have consecutive soft compounds to ensure maximum grip on the street circuit,&#8221; Kobayashi added.<\/p>\n<p>The other tyre rule changes for 2010 are the narrower fronts in the interest of car balance, and the reduction in tyre allocation from 14 to 11 sets per driver.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported recently that this cost-cutting move might be an FIA initiative to try to convince Bridgestone to stay in F1 beyond this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is welcome news from Bridgestone&#8217;s perspective as we will have additional teams to supply and provide tyre fitting services to this year and we thank the FIA and teams for their cooperation in this regard,&#8221; said Kobayashi.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgestone will continue to distinguish its tyre compounds in 2010 by painting green circles around the edges of the sidewalls. \u00a0 The practice was a compromise given last year&#8217;s switch from grooved to slick tyres, but some pointed out that white paint would be a better choice for visibility.<\/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":[390,5262,5300,622,508],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"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=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}