Formula One: Ferrari hire former Bridgestone chief

MARANELLO: Ferrari have hired former Bridgestone chief Hirohide Hamashima to help the Formula One team gain a better understanding of the way their car works with the current Pirelli tyres. The team has also announced at a week-long ‘Wrooom’ event in the Italian Dolomites resort of Madonna Di Campiglio that they would launch their, as-yet unnamed, 2012 car at Maranello on February 3 before starting testing of the vehicle in Jerez in southern Spain the following week. Hamashima worked closely with Ferrari during the Michael Schumacher years when they were the sport’s dominant team and Bridgestone’s most important partner.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 12^th, 2012.