Ferrari and Bridgestone to split ?

[robsinfield]

Maranello, Wednesday. After two races blighted by poor tyres, it appears that Ferrari are going to ditch Bridgestone in favour of a new supplier. Observers have been wondering how Bridgestone, with a multi-multi million dollar budget, plus the £15 million a year they pay the Scuderia to test for solely for them, appear unable to produce four bits of rubber that only manage a few hundred miles before falling to bits. Ferrari have recently been approached by British tyre specialists Kwik-Fit, who told us this morning, 'A full set of F1 spec Bridgestones cost around £3,000 and don't appear to last that well. We do a set of Arrowspeeds for just £60 - or if they want to splash out we do the Champiros at £79.99 each, and they should see you ok for 12,000 miles' With Kwik-Fit operating a full mobile fitting service there should be no need for the team to visit the depots but the Kwik-Fit spokesman went on 'If they do come in we can also do MOT's and exhausts and they can of course have free coffee while they wait'

Rob
www.grandprixdiary.com

[McNab]

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The best laugh in F1.
Sorry - I mean the only laugh in F1....


Can't wait for "Stoddart to shave?"

[KJR]

For the best laugh in F1, although a bit out of date now, you need to do a search on the www/usenet for "THE FORMULA ONE INSIDER".

A series of "articles" written by Mitchell McCann which, as long as you are really into the ins and outs of F1, are brilliant.



See this short example:

www.atlasf1.com/2001/bra/mccann.html

Kenneth.

>> Edited by KJR on Wednesday 23 March 23:54