Hirohide Hamashima, Bridgestone's technical director, expects that ...

Published on 07 November 1998 by Verstappen Info Page

Hirohide Hamashima, Bridgestone's technical director, expects that lap times will soon be up to the 1996 level when all teams still ran with slick tyres. Hamashima: "As far as performance is concerned, the reduction in speeds, amounting to the addition of something between two and three seconds to the lap times, was rather less than we had expected."