{"id":4714,"date":"2010-04-22T06:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2010-04-22T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T11:05:45","slug":"pirelli-admits-possible-interest-in-f1-tyre-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-admits-possible-interest-in-f1-tyre-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli admits possible interest in F1 tyre supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A third name has emerged as a potential supplier of formula one tyres in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been confirmed that Michelin, favoured by the FOTA group, as well as Avon-Cooper &#8211; believed to be favoured by Bernie Ecclestone and small F1 teams due to its lower-cost proposal &#8211; are in the running to replace the departing official supplier Bridgestone.<\/p>\n<p>Milan-based Pirelli said late last year that it did not want to enter F1 because it &#8220;prefers to develop tyres for racing that will also be used on the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But after a shareholder&#8217;s meeting in Milan on Wednesday, chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera said Pirelli might rethink its attitude if certain conditions are met.<\/p>\n<p>Like Michelin, he said Pirelli wants the diameter of F1&#8217;s tyres to be increased from 13 to 18 inches, and would also need to supply its product with an economic benefit to the company.<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian reports including ANSA and the Milan daily Il Giornale, Tronchetti Provera added that if those conditions can be met, Pirelli would &#8220;look into this (F1) world with greater attention&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted however that at the moment &#8220;there is nothing&#8221; more to the rumours.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third name has emerged as a potential supplier of formula one tyres 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":[1387,59,5262,5261,5340,78,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714"}],"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=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}