That's perfectly understandable and acceptable. Each and every tire company that comes in is going to do the same.Jersey Tom wrote:They're just trying to sell passenger tires, I guarantee they don't give a crap about reduced emissions and fuel usage in racing. What a load.
Recently most of the big tire companies have released "fuel efficient" tires.. Michelin Energy Saver and Goodyear FuelMax come to mind. They do work. I'm sure if they get the contract they'll try to get push that for marketing and make up some baloney about moving technology between consumer tires and racing.
Clermont-Ferrand, France-based Michelin is betting on its fuel-saving tire technologies to boost pricing and power a return to the near-10 percent operating margins it recorded before the global economic downturn of 2008.
Tire Sales
Tires sold under the “Green X” label reserved for Michelin’s most fuel-efficient models accounted for more than two-thirds of its global volume last year. The “Energy Saver” range, introduced to Europe in 2007 and the U.S. last year, delivers further reductions in mass, rolling resistance and fuel consumption.
Under current F1 rules, introduced to maintain tactical interest after the move to a single supplier, teams are limited to 14 tire sets over a race weekend and have to use both “soft” and “hard” versions at some point in each event. There are no constraints on rolling resistance or environmental performance.
Jean Todt, the former Ferrari team manager who replaced Max Mosley as FIA president in October, has said the sport should be quicker to embrace technological advances by the auto industry in fuel economy and other areas.
Michelin in Talks on Formula One Return, Seeks Rules Change - Bloomberg