"was damaged beyond repair when he retired from the . In the week before the race, it was announced that the teams would trial several new compounds of tyre rubber in Friday practice, to offer tyre supplier Pirelli more feedback on their planned 2012 tyre compounds. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder ""prime"" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer ""option"" compound, as opposed to the previous year where Bridgestone brought the red-banded super-soft compound as the option. Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Robert Wickens and runner-up Jean-Éric Vergne drove during free"
"units. Pirelli, Formula One's sole tyre supplier since , supplied the ten teams with four compounds of tyres for the event. The two dry selections were the white-banded medium compound as the ""prime"" tyre, while the yellow-banded soft compound was provided as the softer ""option"" choice. The green-banded intermediate weather tyre and the blue-banded full wet compounds were brought to all events. As a consequence of Konstantin Tereshchenko's crash in a GP3 Series race in 2014, new asphalt was laid down on the inside of the final corner, replacing the patch of grass that was there before. In addition, a"
"with tyres supplied by Pirelli. At the November 2011 meeting of the Formula One Commission in Geneva, several teams were given permission to change their constructor names – the name recognised by the FIA as the entity that effectively owns the team, and to which all results for that team are credited – with final approval from the World Motorsports Council granted in December of that year: As a result of the name changes, Team Lotus and Lotus Renault GP declared that their ongoing dispute over the use of the Lotus name was over after they had reached an ""amicable"
"he shows an almost comical lack of knowledge of modern Formula One"""". Another bone of contention has been the reintroduction of tyre changes during pit-stops from 2006. Michelin criticised the move claiming """"this event illustrates F1's problems of incoherent decision-making and lack of transparency""."" In December 2005, and as a result of the difficult relationship with the sport's governing body, Michelin announced that it would not extend its involvement in Formula One beyond the 2006 season. Bridgestone was then the sole supplier of tyres to Formula One until the end of the 2010 season, with Pirelli providing tyres for 2011."
"to a single-tyre manufacturer. The move was made to try to improve safety by reducing cornering speeds, and in a marginal way for cost reasons; the winner was decided by bid. Michelin, one of the two tyre suppliers in 2008, decided not to bid for the supply, effectively declaring Bridgestone the winner, which was confirmed on 18 October 2008. Bridgestone will be the sole tyre supplier from 2009 to 2011. Only race spec tyres will be provided to the teams, eliminating qualifying tyres, in use until 2008. Other cost-cutting manoeuvers were made during the winter prior to the season, to"
"One World Championship. Teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Several team changes took place before the season began. Both McLaren and Lotus changed engine suppliers for the 2015 season. McLaren ended their 20-year partnership with Mercedes-Benz, in favour of a return to Honda, who had previously supplied them from until 1992. Honda had been absent for seven years: they had provided British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in and then had competed as a constructor until . Lotus ended its association with Renault in favour of a deal with Mercedes. This"
"controversy at the Indian Grand Prix where they requested the teams run the tyres a limited number of laps due to their fragility. One senior engineer at a top team said this was the worst blistering ever experienced. In pre-season testing for the 2014 season the tyre on Rosberg's car failed, sending Rosberg into a spin. The incident prompted considerable alarm, and Pirelli stated that the tyre ""will not be proposed again"". In January 2014 Pirelli signed a contract with the FIA to supply tyres to Formula One for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons. Later in 2014 Lewis Hamilton"
"also the exclusive supplier for the FIA Formula Two Championship when revived in 2009 to 2012. In April, 2010, Cooper/Avon Tyres presented a written proposal to Formula One Team Association (FOTA) to be the official tire supplier for the 2011 Formula One season. This was ultimately rejected and Pirelli became the official tire supplier for 2011 onwards. In the United States, Cooper became the official tire of the Champ Car Atlantic Championship in 2007. Cooper became the official tire of the IMSA Prototype Lites series (formerly IMSA Lites) in 2010. Cooper Tires is the official supplier of the Mazda Road"
"(, –) for the period that competed with Goodyear (–) and Michelin (–). Especially, cooperation with Scuderia Ferrari and Michael Schumacher functioned well in this period. From 2008 to 2010 Bridgestone was due to be the sole tyre supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship. However, because Michelin chose to conclude its Formula One tyre programme at the end of the 2006 season, all teams used Bridgestone tyres from the 2007 season to the 2010 Formula One season. On 2 November 2009 Bridgestone announced that they will not be renewing their contract to supply tyres to Formula One teams"
"sole tyre supplier. Few details are available regarding the identity of other customers, although media speculation says several leading F1 teams are using Toyota Motorsport's two modern wind tunnels and other testing rigs. In 2011 Ferrari admitted that it was using the TMG wind tunnel and was still it using in 2013 as it awaits the upgrade to its own wind tunnel. In October 2010, rumours appeared in the media that Toyota Motorsport had been sold to the HRT F1 team. These were denied by Toyota Motorsport. Their machinery was eventually acquired by Stefan Grand Prix, with TMG support. After"
"time, four days before the race, the drivers were positive about the track. Formula One tyre supplier, Bridgestone, celebrated their 200th Formula One grand prix at the race, having now supplied Formula One tyres since 1997. Celebrations included a special ""golden tyre"" which was displayed at the track, as well as two hoardings, inscribed with ""Bridgestone 200"". In technical developments, McLaren and Ferrari modified their front winglets, to make sure that the maximum amount of air flow was diverted. Ferrari also revised their sidepod chimneys and winglets, with the aim of making sure the engine remained cool in hot conditions."
"company returned to Formula One in 2001, supplying the Williams, Jaguar, Benetton (renamed Renault in 2002), Prost and Minardi teams. Toyota joined F1 in 2002 with Michelin tyres, and McLaren also signed up with the company. Michelin tyres were initially uncompetitive but by the 2005 season were totally dominant. This was partly because the new regulations stated that tyres must last the whole race distance (and qualifying), and partly because only one top team (Ferrari) was running Bridgestones, and so had to do much of the development work. Michelin in contrast had much more testing and race data provided by"
"in the 2007 European Grand Prix, the F1 cars are unable to keep up with the safety car in deep standing water due to the risk of aquaplaning. In very wet races such as the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix, the tyres are unable to provide a safe race due to the amount of water, and so the race can be red flagged. The race is either then stopped permanently, or suspended for any period of time until the cars can race safely again. During the 1950s and 1960s, Formula One tyres were supplied by Dunlop, Firestone and Goodyear. In 1958,"
"did however state that the team will go to court if necessary to protect the brand name. On 8 December 2010, Group Lotus announced that they had bought a stake in Renault F1 and had agreed to become title sponsor, with the French car maker retiring to the role of engine supplier. The team would be known as ""Lotus Renault GP"", creating a unique situation whereby the 2011 Formula One grid would see two teams known as Lotus and powered by Renault engines lining up to race. To further the confusion, Group Lotus announced that the 2011 Lotus Renault GP"
"of which were supporting F1 World Championship. The series started in May at Istanbul and concluded at Abu Dhabi in November. The championship was won by reigning GP2 Asia champion Romain Grosjean at the penultimate round of the series. Following a three-year cycle, the previous GP2 chassis was replaced by a brand new car, the GP2/11, built by Italian racing car manufacturer Dallara. The series will change tyre supplier from Bridgestone to Pirelli for 2011–13. The 2011 season saw the addition of two new teams to the grid, Carlin and Team AirAsia. Meanwhile, DPR was not selected to continue in"
"2011 Rolex Sports Car Series The 2011 Rolex Sports Car Series season was the twelfth season of Grand-Am's premier series. Continental Tire became the official tire supplier for Grand-Am, replacing Pirelli after three seasons due to Pirelli moving to Formula One and GP2 Series as tire supplier. The company purchased the naming rights of the RSCS's support series, the Grand-Am Cup Series, from KONI in 2010. The season began with the Rolex 24 at Daytona on January 29 and finished with the EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on September 17. A notable change is the television"
"far in 2011 the podium had featured Vettel as the winner, a McLaren in second place and a Renault in third. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder ""prime"" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer ""option"" compound. This was the same tyre selection that Bridgestone had chosen bring to the Chinese Grand Prix for the previous year. In the Constructors' table, Red Bull Racing led with 72 points, one and a half times McLaren's score (48), and double Ferrari's (36). Despite having two podiums, Renault were still behind Ferrari; but only just"
"Burns won the driver's championship. The year also saw OZ supplied teams winning the Indy 500 and Le Mans. As of 2011, OZ currently supplies the F1 teams Red Bull Racing and Lotus Renault, the Ford World Rally Team and the Audi sports car racing and DTM teams. They are exclusive suppliers to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, GP3 series and before its closure in 2010 the A1 GP series and supply 90% of WRC teams and 80% of IndyCar teams. OZ Group OZ Group is an Italian company founded in 1971 that produces car and motorcycle wheels, specifically alloy"
"Formula One. Bridgestone As of 2017, the company is the largest manufacturer of tyres in the world, followed by Michelin (France), Goodyear (United States), Continental (Germany) and Pirelli (Italy). Bridgestone Group had 181 production facilities in 24 countries as of July 2018. The history of Bridgestone America dates back to the two separate companies that merged to form Bridgestone Tire company. The first one is Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, that was founded in August 1900 by Harvey Firestone and was headquartered in Akron, Ohio. The second one is Bridgestone Tire Company Ltd., founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi in"
"the sport's single tyre supplier for several seasons. Competing manufacturer Bridgestone became the sport's single tyre supplier for the season. Two practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday that was split into two parts and the second on Saturday morning. The first session was held for a total of three hours with the second session lasting two hours. Schumacher set the fastest time in the first practice session with a time of 1:39.823, two-tenths of a second from Jordan driver and brother Ralf Schumacher and Williams driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen. Schumacher's team-mate Irvine was fourth"
"in the GT class. 2011 Rolex Sports Car Series The 2011 Rolex Sports Car Series season was the twelfth season of Grand-Am's premier series. Continental Tire became the official tire supplier for Grand-Am, replacing Pirelli after three seasons due to Pirelli moving to Formula One and GP2 Series as tire supplier. The company purchased the naming rights of the RSCS's support series, the Grand-Am Cup Series, from KONI in 2010. The season began with the Rolex 24 at Daytona on January 29 and finished with the EMCO Gears Classic at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on September 17. A notable"
"supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder ""prime"" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer ""option"" compound. This was the same tyre selection that Bridgestone had chosen to bring to the British Grand Prix for the previous two years. On 30 June, it was announced that Scuderia Toro Rosso testing and reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo would replace Narain Karthikeyan at HRT Formula 1 Team. With Mark Webber driving for Red Bull Racing, Ricciardo's debut marks the first time that two Australian drivers have competed in the same race since Alan Jones and Vern Schuppan"
"their two Lamborghinis, citing a lack of spare parts to repair their cars in time. Prior to the Ordos round, Swiss Racing Team's Lamborghinis were transferred to Münnich Motorsport. At the same time, DKR Engineering merged their outfit with Exim Bank Team China, giving Team China their first two-car entries of the season. Münnich then took over DKR's former entry under the new title of DKR www-discount.de allowing the series to maintain an 18-car field. On 18 March 2011 the FIA published an entry list of teams and manufacturers for the full 2011 season. All teams used Michelin tyres. Following"
"the 1950s (1954 and from 1956 to 1959), then in 1981 and 1982. Cooper became the official tire of the A1 Grand Prix, dubbed the World Cup of Motorsports, for the series' initial 2005-2006 season and was under contract to produce slick tires and treaded rain tires for the series championship until 2008. Since 1982, Avon Tyres had been the sole supplier for the British Formula Three Championship. From the 2009 season onwards, these were re-branded ""Cooper"" as Cooper became the championship's official title sponsor, and will be until the end of the 2014 season at least. Avon Tyres was"
"races are scheduled to take place. A ten place starting grid penalty will be applied for the use of a power unit component used beyond the established allocation; a pit lane start for entire unit changes beyond the limit. From 2010, refuelling is no longer permitted during the race: every car starts with a full fuel load. The 2010 season cars were about 22 cm longer than 2009 cars to accommodate the enlarged fuel tank this necessitated. Formula 1 has contracted a single supplier of tyres since the 2007 season. The supplier (currently Pirelli) supplies seven specifications of slick dry-weather"
"the sport's single tyre supplier since Michelin pulled out after the season. Pirelli took over the tyre contract in , returning to Formula One for the first time since . Three practice sessions were held before the race; the first on Friday afternoon and the second on Friday evening. Both sessions lasted 90 minutes. The third session was held on Saturday afternoon and lasted an hour. All three sessions were held in dry conditions, although the first session was held on a damp but drying track after a pre-session downpour which had not been anticipated. Vettel was quickest with a"
"after 2010. The company said it was ""addressing the impact of the continuing evolution of the business environment"". Pirelli announced in June 2010 that it would serve as sole supplier for tyres in the 2011 season. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bridgestone provided tyres to the Le Mans sport prototypes of teams Nismo and TOM's, backed by Japanese automobile manufacturers Nissan and Toyota respectively. In the early 1990s, Bridgestone expanded to Mercedes-AMG, which entered the DTM and later Le Mans and the FIA GT Championship. The brand left international sports car racing in 2000, but remains as one of the"
"came in second place, his second podium in the 2012 season, and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso third and taking the Formula One championship lead by three points over Vettel and Webber. Like the 2011 Monaco Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the harder ""prime"" tyre and the red-banded super-soft compound tyre as the softer ""option"" tyre. It was the first time for the season that the super-soft compound made an appearance at a race weekend. The circuit underwent some extensive changes in the aftermath of Sergio Pérez's accident during qualifying for the 2011 Monaco Grand"
"extreme rear diffusers seen"" and also a ride height adjustment system. The overall competitiveness of the car compared with other 2010 Formula One cars is unknown. When Pirelli was awarded the contract to take over the exclusive supply of tyres to Formula One from 2011 onwards, there was great speculation that the Italian manufacturer would purchase an old or unraced F1 car to allow for some testing ahead of the official F1 test window. They had been initially linked with purchasing an old BMW Sauber chassis, but were later linked with Toyota and using the TF110. The idea was that"
"Championship, McLaren reduced the points deficit to Red Bull to be twenty-seven points behind. With two races of the season remaining, Ferrari was a further twenty-five points adrift. The Grand Prix was contested by twelve teams with two drivers each. The teams (also known as constructors) were Red Bull, Mercedes, McLaren, Ferrari, Renault, Williams, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Lotus, Hispania and Virgin. Tyre supplier Bridgestone provided four types of tyres to the race; two dry compounds (soft ""options"" and hard ""primes"") and wet-weather compounds (intermediate and full wet). The soft compounds were denoted by a green stripe on their"
"Tyre supplier Pirelli made the soft, supersoft and ultrasoft tyres available to teams for the race. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton went fastest in first practice, setting a time of 1.13:809. He was followed by the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel and his teammate Valtteri Bottas in second and third. Fernando Alonso's McLaren continued to suffer from reliability issues as he broke down and retired from the session. In second practice the Ferrari of Kimi Räikkönen was fastest followed by Hamilton and Vettel. Saturday's third and final practice was topped by Vettel, with Raikkonen second and Hamilton third. Vettel set the quickest time"
"with the arrival of 990cc four-stroke bikes. Four factory teams, Repsol Honda, Marlboro Yamaha, Suzuki and Aprilia, raced with the new four-stroke bikes while all the satellite teams raced with the 500cc two-stroke bike. The season also marked the return of Dunlop and the entry of Bridgestone to the premier class. Dunlop supplied the tyres for Suzuki, Aprilia, Yamaha WCM and Pramac Honda, Bridgestone supplied the tyres for Team Roberts and Kanemoto Racing, and Michelin supplied the tyres for the remaining six teams. However, after only two races, Suzuki switched back to Michelin tyres for the remainder of the season."
"because their 2011 specification front wing satisfactorily completed its mandatory crash tests. Several teams made driver changes for the first practice session. Nico Hülkenberg once again substituted for Paul di Resta at Force India, whilst Daniel Ricciardo drove in the place of Sébastien Buemi at Scuderia Toro Rosso, having previously driven in the place of Jaime Alguersuari in Melbourne. GP2 driver Davide Valsecchi also took part, replacing Heikki Kovalainen at Lotus. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its silver-banded hard compound tyre as the harder ""prime"" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound as the softer ""option"" compound. This was the same tyre"