Goodyear aims high

(14-Oct-98) - Goodyear is pulling out all the stops to leave F1 as World Champion.

The American company is carrying out two parallel tyre tests this week, one
with Ferrari is at its Fiorano and Mugello test tracks, the other with
Williams at Magny-Cours in France.

The data from both teams' tests will be correlated before the final tyre
specification for the Japanese Grand Prix is chosen. That has to be done
this week to allow enough time to manufacture the tyres and ship them to
the Far East.

The teams are understood to be working on new tyres picked from a huge
number evaluated at Barcelona two weeks ago. It is hoped that Goodyear
might be able to find an improvement of as much as 0.5s in the new tyres.

The indications are that McLaren tyre supplier Bridgestone will select one
of its existing tyres for the race.

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