{"id":4416,"date":"2010-04-14T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2010-04-14T15:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:20:26","slug":"official-wants-bridgestone-to-stay-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/official-wants-bridgestone-to-stay-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"Official wants Bridgestone to stay in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An official of the Japanese tyre supplier on Tuesday said he would like to see Bridgestone stay in formula one.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hiroshi Yamada is the development boss for Bridgestone&#8217;s MotoGP programme.<\/p>\n<p>He told Motosprint that while the marque is pulling out of F1, Bridgestone will probably stay in MotoGP beyond the end of its current contract at the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;d have more money to spend (on MotoGP), because the F1 budget is very high, but in my opinion we should stay in F1 too, because our image would lose a lot otherwise,&#8221; said Yamada.<\/p>\n<p>Michelin is touted to re-enter F1 in Bridgestone&#8217;s wake next year, but the French marque wants at least one other supplier to compete with, as well as a move from 13-inch to 18-inch wheel rims in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>McLaren&#8217;s engineering director Paddy Lowe confirmed this week that the teams would back Michelin&#8217;s push for low-profile wheels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes.\u00a0 I think all the teams have agreed that if Michelin would supply that as a condition then we would support that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official of the Japanese tyre supplier on Tuesday said he would like to see Bridgestone stay in formula one.<\/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":[390,5262,5261,5340,1333,5284,78,551],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416"}],"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=4416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4416\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}