BBC Top Gear Presenters Race on Dunlop Tyres

The BBC Top Gear team of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will make their endurance racing debut this weekend at Silverstone in the annual Britcar 24 Hour race. The team will be joined in their BMW 330Dti race car by the mysterious ‘Stig’ and will be tackling Britain’s biggest race event on Dunlop race tyres, reportedly made at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham. Their attempt at the race, which features a vast array of sportscars from Porsche GT3s, Ferraris and Aston Martins to BMW M3s and Honda Civic Type-Rs, will be the feature of a forthcoming BBC Two programme.

Dunlop are delighted that the team are tackling their first endurance race on their race tyres, according to spokesman James Bailey: “Dunlop has won more Le Mans 24 Hour races than any other tyre manufacturer and are dominating many saloon and sportscar racing championships around the world. No-one knows much about The Stig, but we do now know that when it comes to gripping performance, he chooses Dunlop.”

To promote the race, over 100 petrolheads are expected to congregate at Dunlop’s Headquarters at TyreFort in Birmingham on Saturday at 10am before travelling together on the ‘Dunlop Tour24’, raising money for Birmingham Children’s Hospital, to arrive at Silverstone in time to see the start of the race.

Dunlop has been manufacturing competition tyres in Birmingham since 1902. The Birmingham plant now produces around 300,000 specialist racing tyres a year for UK and export markets all over the globe and employs a 300-strong group comprising research, development, manufacturing, engineering and commercial teams.