{"id":4095,"date":"2010-04-02T23:29:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2010-04-02T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T03:29:53","slug":"michelin-wants-tyre-dimension-changes-for-2011-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/michelin-wants-tyre-dimension-changes-for-2011-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin wants tyre dimension changes for 2011 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">As the paddock empties at Sepang long after darkness fell on Friday night, more details about F1&#8217;s possible new tyre formula emerged.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The team bosses met earlier with Bernie Ecclestone at the Malaysian circuit, and the major topic was Bridgestone&#8217;s withdrawal at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It is now known that Michelin has made a tentative proposal to return, but with very clear conditions.\u00a0 One of those, it is believed, is for its 2011 F1 product to have fundamental synergies with the French marque&#8217;s other motor sport forays.<\/p>\n<p>One such synergy is with Michelin&#8217;s sports car programme, which could see the diameter of the F1 wheel rims dramatically increase in size from the current 13 inches.<\/p>\n<p>18-inch F1 tyre regulations would see not only a dramatic aesthetic change, with a move from very thick to very low-profile sidewalls, but Michelin therefore able to share its technology between the racing series.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Michelin&#8217;s proposal did not meet unanimous approval among the team ranks in the meeting with Ecclestone.\u00a0 The teams association FOTA was due to meet subsequently on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the paddock empties at Sepang long after darkness fell on Friday night, more details about F1&#8217;s possible new tyre formula emerged. \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":[59,5262,5261,5340,118,5367,528,1178,78,1216,5336,1188,1193],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095"}],"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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}