{"id":6433,"date":"2010-06-18T07:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=6433"},"modified":"2010-06-18T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T11:12:43","slug":"ecclestone-has-enough-power-to-choose-pirelli-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-has-enough-power-to-choose-pirelli-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone has &#8216;enough power&#8217; to choose Pirelli &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the F1 teams and Bernie Ecclestone want to do a deal with Pirelli, the FIA will have to go along with it.<\/p>\n<p>That is the claim of an unnamed team boss, amid rumours the president of F1&#8217;s governing body Jean Todt is pushing for Michelin to re-enter the sport as the new tyre supplier.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed commercial contracts with F1 chief executive Ecclestone have now been signed by Pirelli, while the teams group FOTA has signed a letter of intent to be supplied by the Milan based company from 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The final hurdle is said to be the consent of the World Motor Sport Council next week.<\/p>\n<p>But the unnamed boss told France&#8217;s Auto Hebdo magazine: &#8220;The FIA manages the regulations, but it is not possible to impose on teams something they don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Certainly, (the FIA) can boycott a decision of FOTA, but I think Ecclestone has enough power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the F1 teams and Bernie Ecclestone want to do a deal with Pirelli, the FIA will have to go along with it. That is the claim of an unnamed team boss, amid rumours the president of F1&#8217;s governing body Jean Todt is pushing for Michelin to re-enter the sport as the new tyre supplier. &#8230;<\/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":[59,5262,5300,5340,118,284,1404],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433"}],"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=6433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6434,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6433\/revisions\/6434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}