Davanti debuts Protoura Race
The Davanti Tyres team confirms that the first track tyre in the Davanti range is now available. The Davanti Protoura Race is produced in sizes for 13- to 18-inch rims and “designed to provide unbeatable performance on the track.” Davanti Tyres is supporting the new track tyre’s release with engagements in motorsport activities, including the Swift Sport Challenge that got underway for 2025 at Brands Hatch last weekend.
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Pirelli fires up engines for European Rally Championship opener in Andalusia
Pirelli’s motorsport tyre crews are supporting the opening weekend of the European Rally Championship in Andalusia on 4-6 April. The Sierra Morena Rally is set on the regions winding tarmac roads, with 82 crews on the entry list. New Zealander Hayden Paddon won back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024 but has chosen not to defend the title in 2025. In addition to its ERC role, Pirelli is the sole supplier and technical partner to the ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy, now in its second season, with seven crews taking part in Rally Sierra Morena.
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Bridgestone sole tyre supplier to 5 EWC teams in 2025
This year’s FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) begins during the Easter weekend. Bridgestone will continue its supply of Battlax tyres to competing teams, but instead of acting as sole tyre supplier to three teams as in 2024 and preceding years, in 2025 Bridgestone will exclusively supply five teams. The newcomers are the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and Kawasaki Webike Trickstar.
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Double today’s footprint: Hoosier expands into EMEA motorsport tyre markets
For many, the justification for investment into motorsports is the potential race-track-to-the-road transmission of both technology to consumer car tyres as well as overall brand awareness. Not so with Hoosier, which became part of the Continental Group back in 2016. For Hoosier, the brand’s single-minded focus on motorsports irrespective of the fact that they have no pure road going tyres is a strength. As company executives put it, Hoosier is the only brand that is all-in on motorsports. As a result, the emphasis is on making the best-performing motorsport tyres as well as focusing on the motorsports tyres customers themselves. Nevertheless, to communicate such messages across continents and even around the globe with a series like FIA WRX, which Hoosier became exclusive official tyre supplier to in 2023, requires marketing and raising brand awareness. With that in mind, as well as Hoosier’s stated aim of expanding into the EMEA region, Tyres & Accessories spoke with executives including Joerg Burfien, president and CEO of Hoosier Tire and Martin Heckers, head of Hoosier Europe.
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Dunlop announces new motorcycle racing tyre tech for Italian CIV series
Dunlop has announced new tyre option for riders in the in the Campionato Italiano Velocità (CIV). The exclusive tyre supplier to all classes in the Italian series said it is refining its track tyre technology to build on a successful debut season. Dunlop will offer a new softer rear compound in the Supersport 600NG category, which last year saw six different winners across the twelve races and featured grids of more than 40 bikes. Superbike riders get a new front tyre which has a new construction to improve braking stability. Dunlop is also offering a new rear compound for qualifying, helping riders to push for rapid lap times over one or two laps longer than with the previous tyre.
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Motorsports in 2025 – Bridgestone outlines engagements
Bridgestone Corporation has announced its 2025 motorsports plan, a programme that involves continued support for various series at home in Japan and around the world, ranging from top-level professional championships to grassroots amateur races. As in past years, the tyre maker will use these engagements as a “mobile laboratory” to aid its development of aftermarket car and motorcycle tyres.
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OSRAM announces renewed sponsorship of BTCC
Lighting specialist, OSRAM, has revealed it is continuing its support of the NAPA racing team for British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) this year. Continuing with its sponsorship of NAPA Racing, the OSRAM logo will appear on the front of the car under both headlights on all four NAPA racing cars.
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Prometeon supplies Copa Truck 2025 again
Prometeon is renewing is role as official tyre supplier of the Copa Truck championship, a popular truck competition held at Brazil’s most famous racing circuits. Based in Milan’s Bicocca district, Prometeon will continue to be the official tyre supplier for the 2025 season, which will start at the Campo Grande circuit in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Prometeon will also serve as the championship sponsor.
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Dixon, Piqueras set new best race laps on Pirelli tyres in Moto2, Moto3
British rider Jake Dixon (Boscoscuro) and Ángel Piqueras (KTM) set new record laps significantly faster in both Moto2 and Moto3 than those set in 2022 on Pirelli tyres at the weekend. Dixon sealed victory by sprinting from the second position on the grid, and achieving the new best race lap, with 1’41.639 on the seventh lap, almost 1.2 seconds faster than the record set by Celestino Vietti in 2022, and over eight-tenths faster than the previous all-time lap record. In Moto2, 18 out of 27 riders lapped under the former best race lap, and 11 of them even under the previous all-time lap record.
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Pirelli’s P Zero DHH and Cinturato WHB GT racing tyres complete Paul Ricard test
Pirelli has completed its GT World Championship group test at Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard circuit, with a rain flooded track on day one and weak sunshine over a mostly dry track on the second. The test featured the new P Zero DHH tyres for dry conditions and the Cinturato WHB for the wet, all tested by the 57 GT cars in the Prologue. Collectively the cars completed 10,320 laps, equivalent to over 57,000 kilometres, from which Pirelli engineers, working from a mobile laboratory trackside, acquired an impressive amount of data.
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Pirelli introduces P Zero DHG GT racing tyre with FSC certified natural rubber
Pirelli is introducing a new generation of dry weather tyres for use by GT2, GT3 and GT4 cars in the GT racing championships it supplies. The Pirelli P Zero DHG features a natural rubber component certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The new tyres were first seen on the morning of 10 March at the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet during the pre-season tests of the GTWC Europe.
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Pirelli ready for start of 2025 F1 World Championship in Melbourne with new hat collab
Pirelli is ready for the opening round of the 75th FIA Formula 1 World Championship in Australia, supplying it’s C3, C4 and C5 tyre compounds, as well as a new podium hat collaboration. The action will take place at the semi-permanent street circuit in Melbourne’s Albert Park, starting a 24 race season, matching the record number of grands prix reached for the first time in 2024. Pirelli and F1 will visit five continents by the final weekend on 5-7 December.
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Liqui Moly partners with M-Sport for BTCC
Liqui Moly UK is proud to announce a partnership with the engine builder M-Sport for the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship. The Cumbria-based outfit best known for their exploits in the world rally stage have entered into an agreement where Liqui Moly will supply products, to support the building and maintenance of the ‘TOCA BTCC engines’ for the 2025 season.
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Yokohama Rubber shares 2025 motorsport plan
Yokohama Rubber has announced its 2025 motorsports activity plan, reinforcing its commitment to motorsports as a platform for advancing tyre technology and promoting its Advan and Geolandar brands. The company aims to expand its presence across global racing events, ranging from top-tier competitions to grassroots motorsports.
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MotoGP: “expanded configuration was not what Michelin wanted”
Following the news that MotoGP has selected Pirelli as an exclusive tyre supplier from 2027, Michelin has commented that Dorna Sport “decide to select a single tyre supplier for all MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE categories” after “several months of discussions”. The problem is “this expanded configuration was not what Michelin wanted, as we have always preferred to focus exclusively on two disciplines: MotoGP and MotoE”, a Michelin spokesperson told Tyres & Accessories in answer to our questions.
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