{"id":5186,"date":"2010-05-09T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2010-05-09T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:39:16","slug":"bridgestone-could-stay-in-f1-beyond-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bridgestone-could-stay-in-f1-beyond-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgestone could stay in F1 beyond 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have resurfaced once again that suggest Bridgestone is contemplating staying in formula one beyond 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Michelin, Pirelli and Avon are all vying to replace the sport&#8217;s apparently departing official sole supplier.<\/p>\n<p>But in Barcelona on Saturday, FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh met with Bridgestone officials.<\/p>\n<p>The FOTA group then met on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting that a new name entering F1 is a &#8220;risk&#8221;, Whitmarsh is quoted as saying by Motorsport-Magazin.com: &#8220;Bridgestone has done a great job in F1.\u00a0 We would be happy if we could persuade them to stay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whitmarsh also admitted that FOTA is reluctant to re-open the door to a tyre war, as per Michelin&#8217;s wishes, due to the need to control costs for the sake of the smaller teams.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed next weekend&#8217;s Monaco event has been set as a target for the finalisation of the issue of 2011 tyre supply.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours have resurfaced once again that suggest Bridgestone is contemplating staying in formula one beyond 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":[1378,390,5262,5261,5340,118,491,78,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186"}],"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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}