Bridgestone Announce New Tyres Line Up For 2008 Season

Bridgestone have announced the line up for the first seven races of the season. Here is a quick run down of the tyres that they will be taking to the races:

Australia – soft, medium
Malaysia – medium, hard
Bahrain – soft, medium
Spain – medium, hard
Turkey – medium, hard
Monaco – super-soft, soft
Canada – super-soft, soft
France – soft, medium
Britain – medium, hard

“Tyre allocation choice for the first half of the season has been made easier by the continuity of our tyres from last year,” explained Hirohide Hamashima, Bridgestone Motorsport’s director of motorsport tyre development. “We have made a minor evolutionary change to the construction of the dry tyres for safety and we have modified the super soft compound, but apart from that the tyres are the same.

“However, we should see faster lap times as teams and drivers now have a year’s experience with these tyres and the cars are being developed all the time. In the second half of the season we will have more of a challenge with tyre allocation as we visit two new street courses at Valencia and Singapore. These will be announced at a later date.”