{"id":4340,"date":"2010-04-12T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:09:45","slug":"michelin-demands-tyre-war-for-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/michelin-demands-tyre-war-for-f1-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin demands tyre war for F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Michelin will only return to F1 next year if it has at least one tyre supplier to compete against.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Bridgestone pulling out as the official sole supplier, the French marque Michelin has admitted it is considering returning to the sport it left at the end of 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It has been rumoured that Michelin not only wants to be paid to supply 18-inch tyres in 2011, but that it would welcome a rival competitor.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening round of the 2010 Le Mans series at Le Castellet, a senior Michelin spokesman said: &#8220;Certain things have to be done, we must have competition, we do not want to be the only supplier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that if the F1 rim size is increased to Le Mans-type specification as per Michelin&#8217;s wishes, Yokohama and Dunlop may also be interested.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelin will only return to F1 next year if it has at least one tyre supplier to compete against.<\/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":[390,182,5262,5261,5340,78,5276],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340"}],"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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4341,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}