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Decision time: details of the 2012 TAFF Awards finalists

Since their introduction, the NTDA Tyre & Fast Fit (TAFF) Awards have become something of a tyre industry institution and the competition is always keen. After all, who wouldn't want the bragging rights of saying that you have been chosen as number one in your sector by your customers?

For those who don't know, the awards are made in a number of categories, in which five finalists have been selected, following nominations from NTDA members. The tyre industry then gets the chance to vote for a winner in each category, with voting forms published in the June, July and August issues of Tyres & Accessories, or you can cast your vote via the NTDA website.

23rd July 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

HiQ opens 2012 Grid Girl competition

HiQ has launched a competition to find its 2012 Grid Girl. The winner will represent the brand and its partnership with Breast Cancer Care at the final round of Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship racing at Brands Hatch in October and act as its ambassador for ‘Pink October’; the yearly fundraising campaign for Breast Cancer Care. HiQ has targeted £100,000 as its fundraising milestone. Voting on the campaign will be stimulated through HiQ’s Facebook app, part of the brand’s vibrant social networking channels on Twitter and Facebook, where regular updates will also be posted. Nominations are open now, and a top 10 will be created after a period of voting, at which point a second phase of voting will begin, both online and through HiQ’s Facebook app.

28th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Dunlop moves two to Dunlop Motorsport, Birmingham

Dunlop Motorsport at Birmingham’s Fort Dunlop is described as one of the best design centres in the business, with the flexibility to produce prototypes in days and manufacture short runs of tyres specifically for the various circuits visited by the tyre supplier every year. Goodyear Dunlop has recently made two new appointments at the facility; Vincent Van Goor moves from the Luxembourg-based Innovation Centre to take up the role of senior design engineer for car, while John Astbury makes a shorter hop from Wolverhampton to his new role as QTech Manager UK.

11th May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodride dealers entertained at Donington

30 Goodride dealers saw the brand-supported Total Control Racing team driver Rob Smith continue his steep AirAsia Renault UK Clio Cup learning curve at Donington Park on 14-15 April. BMTR, Grouptyre and Goodride Performance Tyres were in the BMTR hospitality suite at the circuit. While Smith, a Loughborough University student, finished 17th in each race, Grouptyre says its guests found that the additional involvement of having a car and driver to support added to the experience.

23rd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop heads to high-speed Thruxton with BTCC

Round three of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship will take place at Thruxton this weekend (28-29 April), with three races on Hampshire’s high-speed circuit. Thruxton is the fastest track on the calendar for the teams and drivers of Britain’s premier motor racing championship with cars running bumper-to-bumper at close to 150mph. Once again, title-sponsor Dunlop will supply the rubber for what will be another exciting round of action, while support races come from the Ginetta Junior, Ginetta GT Supercup, Porsche Carrera Cup and Renault Clio Cup grids.

23rd April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop demos sport-derived tyres at Rockingham

Dunlop held a showcase of its latest passenger car and motorcycle products, the Sport Maxx RT and the Dunlop RoadSmart II, at the Rockingham Circuit on Tuesday 17 April. 21 sports cars and 32 high performance motorcycles were gathered to demonstrate the tyres a series of workshops and hands-on demonstrations to key customers at the Northampton Circuit.

20th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodride sponsors AirAsia Renault Clio Cup rookie Rob Smith

Goodride Tyres, manufactured by China’s Hangzhou Zhongce and distributed exclusively in the UK by Grouptyre, has agreed to sponsor rookie driver, Rob Smith in the AirAsia Renault Clio Cup, beginning 31 March – 1 April. Smith’s Clio will feature Goodride branding, alongside the logos of Grouptyre and its individual member companies, as he begins his tour round the country for one of the motorsport calendar’s most exciting race championships. The championship runs on control tyres supplied by Michelin, and supports the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

29th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop gives away BTCC tickets

MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) title sponsor, Dunlop has announced that it will give away 80 tickets to each of the ten rounds of this year’s series. The tyre supplier is offering a pair of weekend tickets and paddock passes to 40 winners, while entrants will be entered automatically into a prize draw for one pair of VIP tickets per round, including TOCA hospitality and a grid walk. The competition will run on Dunlop’s Facebook page and will close a week prior to each respective race weekend.

27th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Yuasa sponsors Honda Racing BTCC team

Yuasa Battery Sales (UK) Ltd has announced that the company has agreed to become the title sponsor of Honda Racing's Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) team in a new three-year deal announced at the unveiling of the team's brand new Civic at Honda's UK Manufacturing Facility in Swindon on Monday 12 March 2012.

12th March 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop launches latest race-inspired rubber – full report

At the end of February Dunlop announced the launch of its Sport Maxx Race and Sport Maxx RT products at Spain’s Ascari Race track. Designed to help some of the world’s fastest cars perform, Dunlop says the Race iteration will be fitted to key models such as the Mercedes SLS and C63 AMG Black Series, Audi’s TT RS and R8, the Porsche 911 GT3 and the BMW M5. The RT is aimed at original equipment manufacturers that are introducing 17 and 18-inch rims ahead of 16 inches; the Sport Maxx RT is the brand’s attempt to capitalise on the market expansion in these sizes on leading performance brands such as Audi, Maserati, Mini, BMW, Jaguar, and Mercedes AMG.

29th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin asks fans: which BTCC circuits are best?

Michelin is running a competition through its Facebook page to find motorsport fans’ favourite British racing circuits. Respondents have the chance to win VIP tickets to Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) events held at their nominated circuits, where the Michelin supplied Formula Renault UK and Renault Clio Cup will take place.

14th February 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama says 2011 motorsport season “one of most successful”

Yokohama says that its 2011 motorsport season ranks as “one of the most successful” for the Japanese tyre manufacturer. It has supplied tyres to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge and the World Touring Cars Championship at the highest levels of circuit racing and rallying, while also helping “grass roots” level competitors to “clinch a huge variety of championships in almost every conceivable form of motorsport”.

3rd November 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

HiQ “tickled pink” by Silverstone supporters' generosity

The HiQ fast fit network says it is “well and truly tickled pink” with Dunlop British Touring Car Championship fans, whose clamour for official memorabilia helped raise £6,000 for Breast Cancer Care at Silverstone. For the third time this season, the Teams' Championship sponsor set up its pink stand and did a brisk trade in HiQ hats, large foam spanners and all number of T-shirts and goody bags. Through their efforts the HiQ team, together with the pink ladies Beverley Edwards, who won this year’s national grid girl competition, managed to boost the amount raised this season past the £15,000 mark. In total, HiQ has raised more than £80,000 for Breast Cancer Care since partnering with the charity in 2009.

18th October 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

HiQ names Basingstoke housewife as winning grid girl

A self proclaimed ‘basic Basingstoke housewife’ will be transformed into a glamorous grid girl for the day after winning a prestigious motorsport competition at Silverstone with the HiQ fast fit network. Mother-of- three Beverley Edwards was chosen as HiQ’s Pink Grid Girl following an intense online vote (she was 149 votes ahead of the nearest rival), meaning she will line up with Team Aon, representing one of their three drivers on the day.

12th October 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

BTCC attracting growing TV audience

Good news for the title sponsor and other supporters – official figures show the number of viewers tuning into watch the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship – the BTCC to its friends – has grown an average of 43 per cent this year. The British Audience Research Board gained this statistic from an analysis of viewer activity during the first seven rounds of the current season versus the first seven rounds of 2010; this latest figure shows a growing interest in the ITV coverage – after the first three rounds the year-on-year increase was only 36 per cent.

29th September 2011/by Tyrepress Editors