Once fuel, now tires

In 2010, the regulation changes have banned refueling during the race. Historically the refueling strategy added a large component, often undesired, to a race weekend but no longer will teams be looking for tactical dominance in fuel strategies. This year proves to be shaping up in to an outright tire wear strategy relying [...]

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F1 responds to Bridgestone exit…sort of

F1 has responded to Bridgestone’s shock announcement that they will leave the sport as its single-supplier after the 2010 season. The news shook the F1 world as it was unexpected and and quite challenging for the series as the FIA regulations have prevented a multiple-supplier format since 2008.

We were expecting to see an PR [...]

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Breaking News: Bridgestone quits F1!

In a shocking announcement, Bridgestone will not renew its contract to supply the Formula 1 series as its tire provider. Currently Bridgestone is the sole supplier of F1 as Michelin bowed out in 2007.

The story can be found at Bloomberg:
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Bridgestone Corp., the world’s largest tiremaker, will stop supplying tires for [...]

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Bridgestone: Stiffness Gap Returns

Bridgestone announced today that they will return to the “stiffness gap”, their words, for two of the four remaining races. Sounds like a “male enhancement” product now doesn’t it?
“We are pleased to release our final allocations,” said Bridgestone’s Hirohide Hamashima. “Singapore is a street course and based on our experience there last year we [...]

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Button on: Cool weather, Webber and ‘ragged’ Vettel

The world championship leading Britain Jenson Button says the cooler temperatures shouldn’t be as critical to his Brawn GP car this weekend in Germany. A dominant season has shown only one weakness so far and that was the cool temperatures at China and Silverstone the only races Brawn GP hasn’t won this year.
“It is [...]

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