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When Goodyear was the only tyre supplier for years it did F1 little harm at all. Teams could build their cars around the tyre characteristics and concentrate on other things like engines, chassis construction, transmissions etc.tyre costs were also relatively stable. Tyre also testing becomes very expensive when you have more than one supplier. The tyre manufacturers want heaps of it as do the chssis manufacturers and it actually makes suspension tuning and development more critical and more of a lottery.
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