Bridgestone will take on Pirelli for the next F1 tyre supplier deal ⚔️ Here’s a look at what challenges Bridgestone must solve and how it could play out ⬇️
Bridgestone, which has been absent from F1 for 15 years, passed the technical vetting undertaken by the FIA, and has been deemed qualified to be the F1 tyre supplier following the initial tender phase.
The teams have no say in the matter other than airing their views through informal conversations they may have had with F1 boss Stefano Domenicali or the FIA. The 2021 season was meant to see F1 switch to new rules and 18-inch tyres but COVID delayed the change to 2022. Bridgestone's last F1 stint lasted for 14 years. The company arrived in 1997, and initially spent two years in a war with Goodyear. It then had two seasons as sole supplier in 1999 and 2000 before Michelin arrived in 2001 and an even more intense battle began.Michael Schumacher
In other words, Bridgestone will first have to develop tyres for the current cars to use in 2025, when downforce levels and so loads will have edged higher from where they are now. And almost in parallel, it has to create something very different for 2026, before those cars actually exist. And that means having a test car, and to be at all representative it will have to be a 2022 model from a current team. That is likely to open up a can of worms.When Pirelli kicked off its F1 test programme it lucked in as Toyota closed its F1 operation at the end of the 2009 season, and its cars were now redundant. It was a handy arrangement as the TF109 was a near-current car, and yet it was neutral, as Toyota was no longer racing.
"So the Renault was available at the time. It was not a top, top team. And obviously our choice was not to have a top team, to not give an advantage to any top team. But at that time, we had a lot of discussion about the advantage." The letter even included a diagram to show the flow of data and how Pirelli and Rennwerk controlled it, with Lotus only involved in the essentials of running the car.
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