In Formula 1 battles between the pilots and escuderías not only get rid. Also the dispute takes place that frees Michelin and Bridgestone to construct the most efficient tires. As well as it happened at the time when the Japanese rubbers beat forcefully to Goodyear, by these moments is the French mark the one that slowly begins to be superior.

Engineers of Bridgestone rest on an arsenal of tires

The new regulation for the present championship, turned out determining so that the tires took a preponderant place in their relation with escuderías and motorists, when having the freedom to designate type of rims for each equipment.
This way, as much Michelin as Bridgestone will have to grant models according to what the constructors ask, and not that these must adapt to which they give them, as it happened the past until year.
Of this form, the tires will have the same level of influence in the chassis that the one that owns the motors, the control of traction, the completions, the styles of the pilots or the aerodynamic loads.

Bridgestone and Ferrari maintain one close relation

Bridgestone must like strategy concentrate its forces in Ferrari, collaborating with the Scuderia de Maranello of constant way, not only by everything what the red cars represent, but in addition because they have the possibility of realizing unofficial tests all the year, whereas the others escuderías who use Japanese compounds, Sauber, Jordan and BAR must be satisfied and so they give to them. Although also to a great extent it is responsibility of them as a result of the thin campaigns that come realizing this year. BAR has complications with the consistency of its chassis, whereas Sauber and Jordan own a very unstable car, adding itself that the Irish square lacks power in the impeller.

Michelin equips to three sharpshooting equipment

Michelin, on the other hand, has the advantage of being able respectively to develop to its compounds in three sharpshooting equipment, that the previous year finished in the second, third and fourth place in the championship of constructors. For the present championship something similar happens; Michael Schumacher just now heads the table of positions, but behind him are Raikkonen, Alonso, their brother Ralf and Montoya, all wearing Michelin in their cars. After them is Barrichello representing Bridgestone, followed by Trulli, Fisichella and Button, but no of these two last ones, that the Japanese rims wear, can to fight by the first place of some race.

Jacques Villeneuve on approval puts the resistance of his Bridgestone

Another example of the advance of Michelin shows the last GP to it of Canada, where in classification only the Ferrari occupied the first places, whereas Williams, McLaren, Jaguar and Toyota, occupied the first nine places in grilla, whereas a distant Frentzen was located in the tenth place.
Soon in race things triggered in form similar, having particularitity of which, the Michelin equipment did not have the obligation to change to their games of tires in his second entrances to boxes, adding to this of which, at the end of the competition, as all could observe, the Ferrari de Michael was watched very close by (less than two seconds), too much would be said, of both FW25 and the R23 de Alonso.
The effectiveness of French rubbers, is based on two profits: One with the arrival of a new structure, in the beginning of the season, and soon with an innovator and complicated range of composed from Monza of the 2002, in which they leant for this year.

McLaren left the Bridgestone and it went to Michelin two years ago

They aim to transform themselves into a promoter of technical developments, as to his they do it competitors with Ferrari.
It is certain that the Bridgestone was performance rain superiors that the Michelin and vice versa in dry track, but is very little probable that more rainy conditions in the next ones return to appear many drawing up that it has left to the competition.
Of all ways, all we know to the capacity and the technical wealth that Ferrari owns to develop compound of all class, reason why would not have to be strange that they continue this year heading the classifications and gaining races.
Michelin showed its claws, surely Bridgestone is conscious of it and it will not want to be in the way as in the past it forced Goodyear to do the same.

Jordan, Sauber and BAR are the other users of Bridgestone

The mixture of sweeping curves along with straight lines of high speed with slow sections in the next GP of Europe, will cause that the equipment uses high an aerodynamic load with a powerful motor, which will force to them to use tires with great adhesion in front of the smooth asphalt that will present/display Nurburgring.
The technological battle is open in diverse fronts, which luckyly does every more competitive day to Formula 1.