Continental, a tyre-maker, and one of the best-performing companies in Germany, has located much of its production abroad.
But the 2005 race is remembered for a tyre debacle that led to seven teams withdrawing and only six cars racing.
But Italian Capello had a 43rd birthday to forget when his left rear wheel came off at 160mph, sending him into a tyre wall.
The jury at an inquest of a 21-year-old man who died at work when a tyre exploded has concluded he had a lack of training.
Firman lost his rear wing on one of the fastest parts of the circuit and pirouetted through 360 degrees before slamming sideways into a tyre wall.
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By then he had almost run out of petrol, had no shotgun rounds left and his Citroen Picasso was damaged, with the front wheel missing a tyre.
But Junqueria swerved to avoid Shinji Nakano's car on the side of the track, spun, and hit a tyre barrier before stopping in the middle of the track.
Thanks to a few incidents where he needed to change a tyre on a rental car, Dan Pepper said he never travels without a black nylon raincoat with a pouch.
In this dismal context it is no wonder that a row has broken out in Italy, where control of Telecom Italia recently passed to Pirelli, a tyre and cables group.
On September 9th, Hankook Tyre, a tyre maker with an investment-grade rating, issued 45 billion won-worth of three-year bonds at some 40 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above the average three-year bond yield in the secondary market.
The spring from Barrichello's car struck Massa's helmet just above his eye, and his feet are believed to have come to rest on both the throttle and brake, as his car ploughed head-on into a tyre wall at about 125mph.
The company wanted to fly in new tyres from its factory in France, but International Automobile Federation (FIA) rules introduced this season, prohibit the introduction of a new tyre part-way through a Grand Prix weekend.
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This week a court gave six workers at a Continental tyre plant suspended jail sentences for invading and vandalising a local-government office, prompting indignation on the left.
They have agreed to act "en bloc" in discussions over the future of the sport and have been pushing for a single tyre manufacturer for several months, although the FIA says it proposed the idea at a meeting last May.
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Continental, a German tyre company, expects to have tyres equipped with the piezoelectric safety system on the road within a few years.
One of those proposals includes using a single tyre manufacturer and smaller engines, by 2006, Mosley said.
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No other vehicle was involved when the BMW patrol car suffered a shredded tyre and broken suspension strut on 26 October.
Firestone also had a huge tyre recall in the late 1970s and was reprieved only when the Reagan administration relaxed safety rules.
Toyota had chosen a different tyre strategy from the other leading teams.
Her body was found in his van on 1 July 2011 after it crashed on the A386 near Hatherleigh following a punctured tyre.
It also brought heavy rains in the afternoon and a punctured tyre, which I fixed by the roadside before riding further west through eerily still countryside.
In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tyre of lack of patriotism put around your neck.
The introduction of a single tyre manufacturer and smaller engines are measures designed to allow all teams to compete on an equal level and increase competitiveness.
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Rather than make fresh acquisitions, says Mr Butters, foreign investors are more likely to form joint ventures, as Michelin has done with Tigar, a local tyre maker.
With the exception of a China-bashing tyre tariff and a retreat on Mexican trucks, Mr Obama has eschewed protectionism.
Meanwhile, team boss Frank Williams said there was also some support for a return to tyre changes at pit-stops.
Police collision expert Jack McBirnie showed the trial a map of tyre marks found in the car park at the Fords Road end of Saughton Park.
All the signs for him are good, he has a very good motorcycle and tyre package underneath him and combines it with youthful exuberance and a gritty determination to succeed.
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While the robots sway and dance with startling precision, a high-performance tyre appears as if by magic.
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