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Bridgestone's green-striped tyres

Original - Bridgestone used green tyre grooves for the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix. Rubens Barrichello (top) demonstrates the "prime" compound, whilst Nick Heidfeld (bottom) is running on the "option" compound, distinguished by the fact that one of the grooves is white.

Reason

Very interesting picture, which shows Bridgestone's green-striped tyres that were used at the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix.

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Formula One tyres, 2008 Japanese Grand Prix and Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Newsletter/Next NW

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Morio

• Support as nominator --Darth Newdar (talk) 08:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose as I don't see why it's that encyclopedic. Based on Formula One tyres there are two different tire compounds used, balancing durability against grip, and the choice of green stripes is some environmental PR campaign. These seem like fairly minor details. It's a useful image in the article but not a FP in my opinion. Fletcher (talk) 13:36, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose - the angles of the two shots are slightly different and the BMW (lower image) is slightly blurred. AlexJ (talk) 14:43, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose - Per Fletcher above. Although fairly well taken, edited and used, I don't see any long term importance to the image. ^LeaveSleaves _talk 14:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose, Fletcher says it best. Daniel Case (talk) 14:56, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose, sorry, it's a good encyclopedic photo, but I simply don't think it can be an FP. Todor→Bozhinov 10:14, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose: Fuzzy pic, poor framing, unexciting subject, low interest longevity. Pyrope 16:39, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 06:52, 23 October 2008 (UTC)