Michelin chief vows tyre manufacturer will bounce back to winning ways

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2005

MAGNY-COURS, France (AFP) — Michelin are determined to recover from the shock and shame of their 15 million dollars tire blunder in the United States by regaining top form and winning again, motorsport director Pierre Dupasquier said on Thursday.

The indefatigable, if diminutive, Frenchman, who has worked for the Clermont Ferrand based French tire manufacturer for 43 years, added that if anyone was culpable for the mistake that led to the six-car race fiasco at Indianapolis, it was him.

"But I am not resigning, nor am I retiring early," he said. "I am due to retire anyway at the end of the year and, until then, we will continue, fighting and working, to do our best. We have to recover from this."

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