{"id":4050,"date":"2010-04-02T08:11:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4050"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:11:02","slug":"bridgestone-no-comment-on-michelin-tyre-war-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bridgestone-no-comment-on-michelin-tyre-war-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone &#8211; no comment on Michelin, tyre war rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Bridgestone spokesman Andy Stobart on Friday declined to comment on reports former rival Michelin could be about to return to F1, perhaps amid a new &#8216;tyre war&#8217; situation.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridgestone, currently F1&#8217;s official sole supplier, has indicated it is pulling out of the sport at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Michelin, the French marque that pulled out at the end of 2006 unhappy with the FIA&#8217;s plans for a control supplier, said recently a return to F1 was being discussed &#8220;but there are some very clear conditions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We reported in January that Korean tyre makers Kumho and Hankook may be interested in racing in F1.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the situation during Friday&#8217;s opening practice in Malaysia, Bridgestone&#8217;s Stobart told BBC radio: &#8220;It&#8217;s too early to comment on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgestone spokesman Andy Stobart on Friday declined to comment on reports former rival Michelin could be about to return to F1, perhaps amid a new &#8216;tyre war&#8217; situation. \u00a0<\/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":[390,5262,5261,5340,392,5367,391,528,1178,78,1216,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050"}],"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=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}