{"id":26593,"date":"2015-01-18T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=26593"},"modified":"2015-01-18T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:17:33","slug":"pirelli-open-to-70s-style-wide-tyres-for-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-open-to-70s-style-wide-tyres-for-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli open to 70s-style wide tyres for F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli is open to supplying bigger tyres to help spice up formula one.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Italy&#8217;s Autosprint said it is often argued that the sport would be more exciting for spectators if the cars were equipped with big 70s-style rear tyres.<\/p>\n<p>The change could be part of a major revamp for the 2017 season, with Bernie Ecclestone also pushing hard for the V6s of today to be replaced by loud, 1000 horse power engines.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the possibility of wider rear tyres, meanwhile, Pirelli&#8217;s Paul Hembery said: &#8220;We had had talks with (the FIA&#8217;s) Charlie (Whiting) as we have always been open to meeting the needs of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just need a little notice,&#8221; he is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be very difficult to completely redesign the tyre for 2016, so it is more realistic to think about 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is also a logical consequence of our contractual terms, as our deal will expire at the end of 2016,&#8221; Hembery added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli is open to supplying bigger tyres to help spice up formula one. A report by Italy&#8217;s Autosprint said it is often argued that the sport would be more exciting for spectators if the cars were equipped with big 70s-style rear tyres. The change could be part of a major revamp for the 2017 season, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,810,5262,5300,5340,1797,1404,5107],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26593"}],"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=26593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26594,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26593\/revisions\/26594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}