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Bridgestone confident heading to Australia
02 March 2008At the Australian Grand Prix, the medium and soft compound Bridgestone Potenza tyres will be used, the same specifications as used there last season. After winter testing, the tyre manufacturer is confident it has its selections right.
"Bridgestone are confident heading to Melbourne," said technical manager Tetsuro Kobayashi. "Our tyres have only been slightly modified from those we used in 2007 so teams and drivers have good knowledge of how best to use them. We have seen the new and modified chassis from the teams testing at a number of circuits this year and there have been no major tyre related issues."
"The changes are very minor evolutions to the tyre construction and relate to safety. In terms of car setup and driver feel, there is no difference from last year's tyres so all the data accumulated last season is of use," he added. "We have modified the super soft compound, but this will not be seen in use until later in the year. The other compounds, the hard, medium and soft, are the same as last year. We will soon announce our tyre compound allocations for each race for the first half of the season, and teams have already been informed of these decisions. Of course, we are looking to a possible bigger change for next season, and that is why we will be evaluating our latest slick development tyre when we next test in April."
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