NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Bridgestone finishes contract process

Bridgestone Motorsport has finally managed to complete all the necessary contracts with the F1 teams and will add Renault, McLaren, Honda, BMW Sauber, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso to its books next year.

Bridgestone Motorsport has finally managed to complete all the necessary contracts with the F1 teams and will add Renault, McLaren, Honda, BMW Sauber, Red Bull Racing and Scuderia Toro Rosso to its books next year. The teams will run Bridgestones for the first time when testing starts again at Barcelona on November 28-30. Bridgestone will be the sole supplier of F1 tyres next year.

This will mean that Bridgestone can now rapidly increase its total of wins in F1, which currently stands at 104.