Hirohide Hamashima

nihongo|Hirohide Hamashima|浜島 裕英|Hirohide Hamashima|born 1952 in Tokyo, also known as Hammy, is the director of the Bridgestone's Motorsport Tyre Development.

Career

After graduating from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology for master's course in macromolecule, Hamashima joined a Japanese tire company, Bridgestone, in 1977.

He is consistently working on the development of the tyres for motor sports since 1981. He worked in many racing categories, such as Formula Two, DTM, the Indianapolis 500 and Formula One. When the company started to supply tire to Formula One in f1|1997, Hamashima took leading role to develop racing tire.

References

* cite book
author = Hirohide Hamashima
title = nihongo|The World's Fastest Formula One tyre–The battle of a Bridgestone engineer|世界最速のF1タイヤ―ブリヂストン・エンジニアの闘い|"Sekai-saisoku no F1 tyre – Bridgestone Engineer no tatakai"
publisher = Shinchosha
language = Japanese
year = 2005
id = ISBN 4106101106