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Bridgestone introduces slick tyre to Potenza portfolio

The Bridgestone Potenza Race tyre empowers drivers to perform confidently, benefitting from leading control on track in dry conditions. Bridgestone’s new semi-slick Potenza Race has set new best lap times, best dry braking performance and outstanding longevity when compared to main competitor tyres. The Potenza Race is Bridgestone’s first-ever dedicated replacement tyre for track days, and the result of the strong Potenza heritage and the first Potenza Race original equipment (OE) fitments including the Lamborghini Huracán STO and SEAT Leon Cupra.

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Giti Tire Motorsport by WS Racing starts 5 BMWs at Nürburgring 24h Race

Giti Tire Motorsport by WS Racing will start an unprecedented five BMW cars in the 52nd ADAC Ravenol 24h Nürburgring endurance race, including the high-profile ‘Girls Only – Ready to rock the Green Hell’ team. The team qualified with two podium finishes across four races in their BMW M4 GT4, and regular drivers Carrie Schreiner, Fabienne Wohlwend, Pippa Mann, and Beitske Visser will again lead the team on the track, with team manager Nicole Willems leading the entirely female team. All five Giti-supported cars will race on the GitiCompete GTR1 tyres, part of the manufacturer’s extensive competition tyre range. It adds that this proven technology transfers to its range for passenger cars, especially focusing on how its motorsport tyres can inform more sustainable motoring.

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Pirelli takes on 24h of Nürburgring – ‘valuable opportunity to test our technology’

Pirelli is supplying tyres to entries in six different classes at the ADAC Ravenol 24h Nürburgring. Describing the event as “one of the most important” in motorsport, Pirelli’s partners include the Porsche 911 GT3 R entered by the Italian Dinamic GT team in the blue riband SP9 category (FIA-GT3) from which the overall winner will emerge. The #54 (PRO) will run the latest generation Hard, Medium and Soft compound Pirelli P Zero and if it rains, it can rely on the Cinturato Hard and Soft, for heavy rain or a drying track respectively. Pirelli said the event presents “an opportunity… to put to the test [its] entire range of GT and Turismo tyres, designed to suit the characteristics of all the different types of car taking part.” The race famously features highly variable weather conditions over the course of the combined Nordschleife and GP-Strecke’s 25.378km.

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Compact format Rally di Sardegna means tyre management ‘even more important’ – Pirelli

Tyre management at the Rally di Sardegna, the sixth round of the World Rally Championship, is “even more important” with a more compact 16-stage schedule, according to supplier Pirelli. Returning to Alghero, the event covers a total of 266.12 timed kilometres over three days of competition. There will be no service or tyre changing before the repeat runs, by which time the cars and tyres will have already been subjected to a lot of stress, meaning careful tyre management will benefit teams. In Sardinia the hard compound Scorpion KX WRC HB will be the prime and the soft compound Scorpion KX WRC SB will be the option.

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Vipal showing ‘commitment to sustainability’ at Tire Cologne

Long before the topic became a priority in the corporate world, the frequent disposal of tyres in good condition caught the attention of Vipal’s founder, Vicencio Paludo who was at the time owner of a fuel station in Nova Prata, in southern Brazil. This prompted him to acquire machines to retread used tyres. Vipal’s business was consolidated to avoid waste and the generation of residues.

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Kirkby & BKT Tires publish Earthmax case study

Kirkby Tyres, in collaboration with BKT Tires, has developed a comprehensive case study on Brookland Sand & Aggregates Ltd, an independent, family-run business located in Cornwall. They threw the spotlight on the performance of BKT Earthmax tyres in quarry applications.

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Hella to present ADAS talk at UK Garage and Bodyshop Event

Prometeon Tyre Group will hand a UK debut to its first Prometeon-branded premium tyres at this year’s Road Transport Expo (Hall 2A, Stand GR38 at NAEC Stoneleigh, Warwickshire; 4-6 June 2024). Ali Yilmaz, Prometeon managing director UK, Ireland and Nordics, comments: “RTX 2024 is the perfect platform for the UK debut of the first of our new Prometeon-branded premium tyres. We are proud of our heritage and the evolution to Prometeon-branded products is an historical moment for the Group.”

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Goodyear expands Vector 4Seasons Gen-3 range

New additions to the Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-3 tyre line will enable it to cater to a wider range of vehicles. This move aligns with the projected growth in demand for all-season tyres in Europe, positioning Goodyear to strengthen its market presence. The extension introduces 29 new sizes, with 17 of these being for 19-inch and larger rim diameters.

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Sustainability the keyword for Autopromotec 2025

Autopromotec, the automotive equipment and aftermarket exhibition scheduled from 21 to 24 May 2025 at the Bologna exhibition centre, celebrates an important milestone: 30 biennial exhibitions, covering 60 years of history. On the eve of a truly historic edition, the organisers are taking important strides towards achieving all-round sustainability. In fact, the path towards certification for sustainability management systems for events, the UNI ISO 20121 standard, has already begun.

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East meets West: The interplay between Far Eastern tyremakers and western markets

As this June edition of Tyres & Accessories went to press, we were all preparing for The Tire Cologne. Lauded as Europe’s leading tyre exhibition, the 2024 show will be an undoubtedly international event (see next month’s July issue for the review of what took place). Within Tire Cologne’s international remit, Tyres & Accessories understands that a number of well-known as well as up-and-coming Far Eastern manufacturers will be present this year. Since China is the world’s largest producer of tyres by unit volume, and in order to catch up with developments that have taken place post-Covid, T&A recently spent time in China meeting with numerous domestic and international tyremakers there.

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Direct retail, pre-sale research and social media in China and Europe

With China’s biggest online tyre retailer, Tuhu, having gone public at the beginning of this year, and with that firm alone generating annual sales of 13.6 billion yuan (£1.476 billion; 1.732 billion euros; $1.878 billion), the recent livestream panel discussion that took place between Tyres & Accessories and Car & Tire in China moved on to the similarities and differences between the online tyre business in the UK and Europe compared with China. The discussed touched on subjects including direct retail, pre-sale research and social media.

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Jiangsu General Cambodia tyre plant capacity reaches 5.9 million units

Jiangsu General held an overseas dealer conference in Cambodia on 22 May and celebrated the first anniversary of its Cambodian tyre production base. At the meeting, the tyre manufacturer announced that the first phase of the Cambodian project had reached production. In other words, its Cambodian factory can now produce 5 million semi-steel radial tyres and 900,000 all-steel radial tyres per year.

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Tyre News in Numbers – May 2024

Tyres & Accessories’ monthly ‘Tyres News in Numbers’ column boils down the latest tyre industry news to the most important statistics of the month. Below, we look at the big numbers from the May 2024 magazine… $800-1,000 million: The valuation of Goodyear’s OTR tyre business by financial analysts at Jeffries. Goodyear has identified this segment alongside the rights to the Dunlop brand and Goodyear Chemical as parts of its business open to offers as it continues to restructure its business in the wake of leadership changes in 2023.

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Hankook extends long-term partnership with UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League

Immediately following the conclusion of the 2023/24 season UEFA Europa League Final at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, a somewhat unexpected 3-0 win for Gian Piero Gasperini’s Atalanta over Xabi Alonso’s otherwise undefeated Bayer Leverkusen team, official global sponsor Hankook Tire announced that it will extend its partnership with the competition and the lower tier Conference League, via its Laufenn brand, for a further three-year deal. The new deal extends to at least the end of the 2026/27 season the Korean tyre manufacturer’s relationship with the UEFA competitions, which debuted in 2012. The partnership is already the Europa League’s longest. Both the UEFA Europa League and the Conference League are expanding in the 2024/25 season, affording the Hankook and Laufenn brands increased exposure thanks to a revamped league phase. The showpiece event in Dublin offered a great spectacle on the European stage to Hankook, which has hosted corporate guests all around the continent as well as displayed its branding prominently across the continent as a result of its sponsorship deal this season.

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