{"id":32732,"date":"2016-01-29T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=32732"},"modified":"2016-01-29T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:53:25","slug":"pirelli-delighted-to-talk-tyres-with-f1-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-delighted-to-talk-tyres-with-f1-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli &#8216;delighted&#8217; to talk tyres with F1 drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 seems on track for faster tyres in 2017, as Pirelli welcomes the opportunity to meet with disgruntled drivers next week.<\/p>\n<p>Although earlier a supporter of the controversial era of &#8216;show&#8217;-inspired high degradation, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone this week backed Alex Wurz, after the GPDA president said drivers are unanimously pushing for &#8220;maximum attack&#8221; tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told the BBC that drivers were free to attend a meeting at Pirelli&#8217;s Milan headquarters early next week, to be chaired by the Italian marque&#8217;s president Marco Tronchetti Provera.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, F1&#8217;s official tyre supplier said it is &#8220;delighted&#8221; to host the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pirelli sees this meeting as being of vital importance in order to further consolidate the close collaboration that got underway last year with the FIA, FOM, and the drivers,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Pirelli cautioned, however, that it must be allowed to do more testing.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that &#8220;these are vital steps towards tyre development that takes into account the future evolution of the cars and added performance, which will be particularly notable in 2017&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 seems on track for faster tyres in 2017, as Pirelli welcomes the opportunity to meet with disgruntled drivers next week. Although earlier a supporter of the controversial era of &#8216;show&#8217;-inspired high degradation, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone this week backed Alex Wurz, after the GPDA president said drivers are unanimously pushing for &#8220;maximum attack&#8221; tyres. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[894,59,5262,5300,317,5340,1459,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732"}],"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=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32734,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions\/32734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}