{"id":4236,"date":"2010-04-08T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2010-04-08T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:11:11","slug":"f1-wont-be-left-without-tyres-in-2011-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-wont-be-left-without-tyres-in-2011-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 won&#8217;t be left without tyres in 2011 &#8211; Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Sir Frank Williams insists he is not worried that F1 will be embarrassingly left without a tyre supplier in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be tyres,&#8221; said the veteran co-owner and boss of his eponymous British team.<\/p>\n<p>The subject of tyres was discussed at length between Williams&#8217; fellow principals and Bernie Ecclestone in Malaysia last week, due to Bridgestone not extending its contract as the official sole supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Among the suggestions are that Michelin could return to F1, perhaps in competition with Korean marques Kumho or Hankook, and perhaps with Le Mans-style low-profile 18-inch rims.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of much wider rear tyres has also been mooted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The question is whether we get them for free or whether we have to pay,&#8221; Williams, 67, is quoted as saying by the German-language motorline.cc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have already been talks.\u00a0 Some of the companies have developed formula one tyres in the past, others have not,&#8221; he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton said that re-igniting the tyre war would be an &#8220;expensive&#8221; route for F1, while Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn said he is not automatically opposed to the idea of changing the current rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a tyre manufacturer wants to be in formula one, we have to consider their objectives and try to meet them up with the objectives of the teams,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Frank Williams insists he is not worried that F1 will be embarrassingly left without a tyre supplier in 2011.<\/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":[59,390,5262,5261,5340,392,391,78,35,541],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236"}],"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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4237,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions\/4237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}