{"id":21,"date":"2007-09-24T08:29:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T22:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2007\/09\/controlled-tyre\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T22:29:16","slug":"controlled-tyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2007\/09\/controlled-tyre\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled Tyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago, Australia&#8217;s V8 Supercar Championship changed to a &#8220;control tyre&#8221; &#8211; that being that every competitor runs on the exact same tyre &#8211; manufacturer, compound, construction, etc. The theory is that &#8220;well off&#8221; teams can&#8217;t exploit their wealth with special deals with tyre companies to gain an advantage over everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTsckx1R5Mg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>On this particular day, at the now defunct Canberra 400, Marcos Ambrose didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;control tyre&#8221; issue &#8211; more, he had a &#8220;controlled tyre&#8221; issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago, Australia&#8217;s V8 Supercar Championship changed to a &#8220;control tyre&#8221; &#8211; that being that every competitor runs on the exact same tyre &#8211; manufacturer, compound, construction, etc. The theory is that &#8220;well off&#8221; teams can&#8217;t exploit their wealth with special deals with tyre companies to gain an advantage over everyone else. On this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}