{"id":5871,"date":"2010-05-30T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2010-05-30T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T15:14:05","slug":"teams-designing-2011-cars-for-current-f1-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/teams-designing-2011-cars-for-current-f1-tyres\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams designing 2011 cars for current F1 tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Because the decision about next year&#8217;s supplier is taking so long, F1 teams are designing their 2011 cars around the current specification of Bridgestone tyre.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Japanese marque is departing the sport, and it had been expected that the Italian company Pirelli would be unveiled this weekend as successor.<\/p>\n<p>But Michelin has thrown a spanner in the works, sending competition boss Nick Shorrock to Istanbul, where a 90 minute meeting on Sunday resulted in the teams still not deciding on an outcome for next year&#8217;s world championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to take a little while longer,&#8221; Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn told Reuters in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>But the teams&#8217; designers are out of time, and leading outfits are getting anxious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s already late and we cannot really waste more time on it,&#8221; said Ferrari&#8217;s Stefano Domenicali.<\/p>\n<p>Brawn said the teams are handling the situation by producing a &#8220;technical specification&#8221; of the tyre they want for 2011, and are therefore able to continue with plans for next year&#8217;s cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our cars are being designed around the current tyres because we have no other information,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Because the decision about next year&#8217;s supplier is taking so long, F1 teams are designing their 2011 cars around the current specification of Bridgestone tyre.<\/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":[390,5262,5340,78,1404,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871"}],"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=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}