Michelin has no interest in supplying tyres to Formula One unless the sport agrees to make them bigger, a change motorsport head Pascal Couasnon (pictured below) feels sure will happen eventually. The French company and current suppliers Pirelli are the only bidders for the three-year contract from 2017, when rule changes could be introduced to make the cars quicker and harder to handle. Michelin have stressed that their bid depends on a change of tyre specification from 13 inch to at least 18. 'If the sport decides to stay with 13 inch, we respect it but it would not make sense to us,' Couasnon told Reuters during the season-ending London round of the new electric Formula E series....
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