[Gore]

I saw this story on Autosport.com, and had to read it a couple of times to make sense of it.

JV's comment "I wish I had had these tyres before this test, like in a race" implies that it must be a case of a type of tyre previously available to other teams; if the tyres were used in the other sense, he wouldn't have wanted to have been given them in a race. He also mentions that the situation was akin to an earlier episode in which other Bridgestone teams were given tyres not made available to BAR.

Also, I'd be amazed if the BAR team took delivery of worn tyres from Bridgestone, even if the mechanics fitting them assumed the wear was from previous BAR running.

The first two paragraphs do suggest that whoever wrote the story isn't sure what Villeneuve meant though, don't they?