A tyre war has been ruled out in formula one at least for the next four seasons.<\/p>\n
Pirelli and, it seems, Michelin have both put their names forward for the newly-announced tender process to identify the sport’s official supplier beyond 2016.<\/p>\n
And according to Pirelli’s Paul Hembery, the tender document says F1 “will have a single tyre supplier until the end of 2019” at least, he was quoted by Brazil’s Totalrace.<\/p>\n
The news comes despite some in F1, including Fernando Alonso, believing a tyre war would be one way to take the sport back to the thrilling days of a decade ago.<\/p>\n
But the F1 teams are not keen.<\/p>\n
Franz Tost, boss of Toro Rosso, said tyre wars usually mean “Two teams get the good tyres and the rest get the scraps”.<\/p>\n
“When Michelin was in,” he recalled, “it (the favoured Michelin team) was Renault, therefore Alonso has good memories”.<\/p>\n
And Hembery said Tost’s sentiments are shared widely among his colleagues.<\/p>\n
“I think the teams want the situation to stay as it is (with one supplier),” he said, “and we have nothing to add to that.”<\/p>\n
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