Bridgestone Trial Single Wet F1 Tyre

Bridgestone have revealed that they are in the process of developing a single wet tyre for Formula One cars, to replace the current choice of standard and extreme wets.

The tyre is to be based on the single wet rubber used in the GP2 Series, also supplied by the Japanese giant. It possesses a sloping block tread profile, which is designed to wear down when the track begins to dry, allowing an in-use transformation from an extreme-wet tyre to showing the characteristics of a standard wet.

Hirohide Hamashima, the company’s director of motorsport tyre development told motorsport news sources, “We do have a new single wet Formula One tyre which we have been developing. However, the current regulations call for two wet tyres, a wet and an extreme wet, so it would be a long time before we could see this tyre in use at a race weekend.” The company is set to trial the tyre at the next F1 wet test.