{"id":5381,"date":"2010-05-14T06:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2010-05-14T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:58:18","slug":"pirelli-does-not-want-f1-tyre-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/pirelli-does-not-want-f1-tyre-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirelli does not want F1 tyre rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli has clarified that it is not interested in competing in formula one with other tyre suppliers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was confirmed officially last week that the Italian marque has submitted an application to replace Bridgestone as the sport&#8217;s sole supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Michelin also wants to come back to formula one next year, and it has been rumoured in recent days that Pirelli might be willing to satisfy the French company&#8217;s desire to race against other tyre brands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment we are having discussions about a single supplier situation, not about an open market,&#8221; Pirelli&#8217;s racing manager Mario Isola is quoted by Auto Hebdo.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the French magazine also said Bridgestone, Avon, Kumho and Hankook are the other candidates to supply F1 teams next year.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are pushing hard for clarity about 2011 tyre supply, but it is now rumoured that a resolution is unlikely by the end of the Monaco race weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good news is there appears to be several companies interested in supplying tyres to formula one,&#8221; said FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirelli has clarified that it is not interested in competing in formula one with other tyre suppliers.<\/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":[1378,390,5262,5300,5261,5340,118,392,391,1608,491,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381"}],"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=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5382,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}