{"id":4082,"date":"2010-04-02T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4082"},"modified":"2010-04-02T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:44:51","slug":"teams-discuss-re-igniting-f1-tyre-war-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/teams-discuss-re-igniting-f1-tyre-war-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams discuss re-igniting F1 tyre war in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Friday&#8217;s meeting with Bernie Ecclestone involving all the team bosses was almost exclusively about the tyre supplier situation for 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Auto Motor und Sport said the leading figures are concerned that, 11 months prior to next season&#8217;s world championship, it is not clear who will replace the departing official supplier Bridgestone.<\/p>\n<p>The report said French marque Michelin, having pulled out at the end of 2006 upset about the end of the tyre war, is willing to return but &#8220;wants money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The rumoured figure is between EUR2 and 5 million per team per season, and including free advertising around the grand prix circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, it has also been rumoured that Bridgestone might rethink its decision to leave F1 if the teams pay for their supply contracts.<\/p>\n<p>It is rumoured that Ecclestone is proposing that the advertising revenue lost by giving Michelin free circuit hoardings should come out of general revenue &#8212; in other words, the teams will get less.<\/p>\n<p>But if F1 re-commenced a tyre war, it would mean that Michelin&#8217;s rivals &#8211; for example Hankook or Kumho &#8211; would compete for the signatures of the teams, leading to more favourable contract terms.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s meeting with Bernie Ecclestone involving all the team bosses was almost exclusively about the tyre supplier situation for 2011. \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":[59,390,5262,1227,5261,5340,5367,528,1178,78,1216,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082"}],"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=4082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4082\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}