Yokohama tyres back for Macau GP

Yokohama tyres are set to return to Macau’s Grand Prix event between November 16 and 19, after being sidelined in last year’s race in favor of competitor firm Pirelli. The announcement of the return of Yokohama tyres was made on the FIA website yesterday. According to the announcement, “the use of a unique FIA F3 World Cup specification tyre will offer a fairer competition around the challenging Guia Circuit.” Each racing competitor will be allocated seven front and seven rear dry tyres and six front and six rear wet tyres for the entire event. To further increase parity between competitors, the FIA statement noted, the team will only receive the tyre specification at the start of the event. Last year’s change marked the first time since the Macau race adopted F3 regulations back in 1983, that racers did not use tyres from the Japanese giant. The announcement of the change took Yokohama by surprise, as it was allegedly already in production for the Macau event and was close to shipment when notified.