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Scorpion Gravel tyre helps Pirelli to WRC2 podium on WRC return

Pirelli’s all-new Scorpion Gravel tyre helped two cars achieve WRC2 podium finishes on its return to the World Rally Championship, after a three-year absence. Pirelli is supplying tyres on a customer basis to privateers, and Lorenzo Bertelli (13th overall and second in WRC2) in his Ford Fiesta RRC, and Max Rendina (14th overall and third in WRC2) with a Mitsubishi Lancer both achieved top-three places in their class on the new tyre.

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  1. Pirelli Travels to UK for Decisive World Rally Stage
  2. Pirelli resumes WRC supply
  3. ‘Best result since WRC return’ – Pirelli
  4. Pirelli taking on ‘unique challenge’ at the Rally Roma Capitale
10th March 2014 by
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Dmack, Tänak speed impresses in Mexico

Dmack’s drivers have shown excellent pace among WRC 2 runners at Rally Guanajuato Mexico. Estonian Ott Tänak set fastest times on every stage he completed at round three of the FIA World Rally Championship, but missed out on victory after an early accident. Heading the Drive DMACK World Rally Team, Tänak set the second fastest overall time on the opening run through the Monster Street Stage in front of tens of thousands of spectators on Thursday evening.

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  1. Dmack rounds corner on 50th event at Wales Rally GB
  2. Dmack targeting ‘correct’ dealers to deliver mid-range PCR strategy
  3. Dmack to introduce new tyre, driver in Finland
  4. Dmack partners Junior British Rally Championship
10th March 2014 by
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Pirelli expects 2-3 pit stops in Melbourne F1 season opener

Pirelli is beginning its second three-year stint as Formula One’s exclusive tyre supplier in Melbourne, Australia this weekend, having deemed its new P Zero White medium and P Zero Yellow soft compounds the best suited to the street circuit. Slightly harder and more durable than their equivalents last year, Pirelli believes the tyres will offer decreased degradation, having supplied the new tyres to three winter tests in Spain and Bahrain, but conservatively predicts that most cars will stop two-to-three times.

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  1. Pirelli presents F1 tyre range as final pre-season test gets underway in Bahrain
  2. Pirelli announces tyre allocations for first four F1 grands prix
  3. Pirelli tyres withstand difficult conditions in Malaysia as drivers disagree on quality
  4. Pirelli bringing 2014 F1 tyres to ‘end of era’ round
10th March 2014 by

Goodyear plant evacuated following threat

US industry magazine Tire Review reports that workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina were forced to evacuate the building early morning on Monday, 10 March. According to company officials, employees were evacuated at the plant around 2am after someone called in a threat. No one was injured, and […]

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  3. Age Interest Magazine Honours Ledbetter
  4. Temporary closure for Goodyear plant under discussion
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Matador, Aeolus offer specialist mid-range, budget bus and coach tyres from KRT

While premium tyre manufacturers are notably providing more application-specific products to the coach and bus sector, the move to specialisation does not end in the higher-priced market segment. Kings Road Tyres (KRT), one of the UK’s leading wholesale suppliers of specialist tyres to the bus and coach sector, explains that its exclusive brands Matador and Aeolus both offer coach and bus tyres for use in urban environs with mid-range and budget price tags.

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  1. Kings Road Tyres expands exclusive Blacklion TBR range
  2. Kings Road Tyres introduces Blacklion TBR
  3. Kings Road Tyres to launch Aeolus Valued Partner incentive at Brityrex
  4. Upturn in housebuilding to sustain UK OTR growth – KRT
10th March 2014 by
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Fleet success for Goodyear Marathon Coach

More than 17 fleets have fitted the Goodyear Marathon Coach tyre, an all-position tyre for year-round use and the first tyre Goodyear designed specifically for coaches, launched in 2012.

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10th March 2014 by
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February decline in bus and coach market

Figures from the SMMT show that the UK bus and coach market fell 12.1 per cent in February to 356 units. The purpose-built sector dropped 44.4per cent in the month, down 18.6 per cent for the year-to-date. However, the converted bus market picked up, rising 31.2 per cent in February.

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  1. Strong van registrations counter Euro-6 truck dip in February
  2. Strong van sales boost February CV market
  3. New car registrations make March biggest month in a decade
  4. Van and truck sales up in March
10th March 2014 by
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Strong van sales boost February CV market

The SMMT has revealed that total UK commercial vehicle registrations grew by17.5 per cent in February to 13,320 with the rolling year figure up 15.1 per cent to 330,283. Van sales drove the CV growth with a strong February performance. A 28.2 per cent rise in the month to 11,731 registrations boosted the rolling 12 months by 13.8 per cent.

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  1. Strong van registrations counter Euro-6 truck dip in February
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  3. February decline in bus and coach market
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10th March 2014 by
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February marks two years of growth in UK car sales

February new car registrations rose 3.0 per cent to 68,736 units; this means that the UK new car market has achieved 24 consecutive months of growth, increasing 17.4 per cent over the period. The SMMT suggests that rising GDP and growing car registrations signal increasing consumer confidence and automotive retailers are looking forward to March results as expectations rise for a strong 14-plate performance.

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  3. UK new car market down a third as tentative restart reveals subdued demand
  4. UK now biggest EU market for Korean car brands – SMMT
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Act now to ensure CV wheel safety, says Disc-Lock

Disc-Lock Europe, European distributor of the Disc-Lock Safety Wheel Nut, is urging transport operators to act before, not after a wheel loss event. The company is exhibiting at the forthcoming Commercial Vehicle Show 2014 and Disc-Lock chairman and wheel security expert, Bob Hope, will be on hand to discuss, with transport operators and transport engineers, the common causes of wheel detachment from commercial vehicles and how they can be avoided.

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10th March 2014 /1 Comment/by

FTA calls for more reliable, resilient roads

The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the Government’s decision to offer local highway authorities £80 million to fix the roads most damaged by severe weather. However, with the possibility that we will see more occasions when severe weather will affect our road network, highway authorities must look at their whole life maintenance plans to build and maintain more reliable, resilient roads.

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  1. “New Government should give logistics the attention it deserves” – FTA
  2. FTA ‘concerned’ over journey time reliability figures
  3. New Proposed Tyre Waste Laws for Ireland
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10th March 2014 by
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Bahrain, Barcelona, Silverstone in-season tests agreed by Pirelli, F1 teams

Pirelli, the 11 Formula One teams and the FIA have agreed the schedule of the new dedicated tyre testing days (one per team) that each team will undertake within the existing 2014 in-season test calendar. Caterham, Mercedes and Williams will test in Bahrain; Sauber, Toro Rosso, McLaren and Force India in Barcelona; and Ferrari, Lotus, Red Bull and Marussia at Silverstone.

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  1. Pirelli highlights F1 tyre longevity at hard-wearing Barcelona
  2. Pirelli’s 2014 F1 tyres said to reflect a more cautious approach
  3. Rosberg completes championship victory as Pirelli ‘ends high degradation tyre era’
  4. ‘Increased performance gap’ between Pirelli F1 compounds
7th March 2014 by
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Bridgestone specialist urban bus tyre available from April

Bridgestone’s newest passenger transport commercial vehicle tyre, the U-AP 001, will be available in the UK from April. The urban bus and coach specialist product, designated by the first letter in its name as part of Bridgestone’s new nomenclature convention, is an all-position tyre developed for city environments. The manufacturer has also upgraded the load capacity of its European M788 Evo tyre, the “backbone” of its bus and coach tyre offering, in order to cope with the heavier weight of Euro VI vehicles.

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  1. Michelin launches X Multi D coach, medium truck tyre
  2. Michelin expands ‘most fuel efficient’ commercial vehicle tyre range
  3. Pirelli launches commercial vehicle innovations at Reifen 2014
  4. Bridgestone staying strong in a growing truck tyre market
7th March 2014 by
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Michelin launches Alpin 5 winter tyre

Michelin launched its latest winter tyre, the Alpin 5, at an event held in and around Innsbruck, Austria, a city within sliding distance of some of Europe’s finest winter sports holiday resorts. The tyre has been developed out of research that undertook the task of better understanding the winter tyre’s usage and in a sense the unseasonably warm weather in early February during the launch helped to illustrate Michelin’s “one season, one tyre” point.

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6th March 2014 by
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Toyo joins TyreSafe

Toyo Tires has become the latest tyre manufacturer to join TyreSafe. The manufacturer said that it would campaign alongside TyreSafe’s other members from a wide variety of sectors, including councils and insurers as well as companies within the tyre industry, to help raise awareness about the dangers associated with illegal and defective tyres. The manufacturer added that it would seek to enhance its tyre safety message with TyreSafe’s help.

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6th March 2014 by

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