Renault team boss Flavio Briatore fears Michelin’s departure from Formula One at the end of the year could give Ferrari an advantage in 2007 unless the governing body steps in.

“I believe we need to be worried about that, absolutely,” he told reporters in Spain at the weekend when asked whether he was concerned about the situation.

“If we are all on Bridgestone next year, then if you use them already surely you have an advantage.”

Champions Renault use Michelin tires but the French company is pulling out after the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) and teams agreed there should be a single supplier only from 2008.

Ferrari, constructors’ champions for six years in a row with Bridgestone until last season, have long had a special relationship with Bridgestone who this year also took on Toyota and Williams and want to stay long-term.

Briatore said the FIA must ensure the tires Bridgestone produced for all next year were unlike anything they had previously provided to their existing teams.

“I believe that what the Federation should be doing to be fair is they need to change the compound, they need to change the construction, they need to change completely,” he said.

“I don’t think it is fair to give an advantage to some teams, whoever those teams are. I don’t care whether it is Ferrari, I believe we need to have equal possibility to do our job,” added the Italian.

CNN.com

Ok, I understand Briatore wants equal treatment from Bridgestone when they (and all the teams) move to that tire.

But…

C’mon Flav, you want them to change the compound…’they need to change completely’?

Maybe you need to build a chassis that will suit the tire…

like Ferrari has.