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Motor Club competition-winning Land Rover using Cooper tyres in domestic rally

A Land Rover Defender shod with standard 255/55R18 Cooper 4XS tyres has topped the Kirkby Lonsdale Motor Club drivers and co-drivers competition at the start of the UK’s domestic rally season. Mike Dawn and Jane Clarke, from Windermere, chose the biodiesel-powered 4×4 to compete in a series of national rally events during the 2011 season. In their first rally on the North West Stages, they completed 24 stages and 75 competitive miles of asphalt routes to finish 41st out of 105 competitors.

22nd March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin North America begins 2011 Green X Challenge

News

The third running of the Michelin Green X Challenge gets underway in North America on March 19, and the tyre maker says the season opener at the Sebring circuit in Florida will offer “a glimpse into the future of technology and innovation that become more relevant every day.” The US based Green X Challenge recognises the Prototype and GT category cars that prove “cleanest, fastest, most efficient” in the “race within the race” at every American Le Mans Series event. Similar competitions are now also part of every Asian and European Le Mans Series event, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the new Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

16th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

TyreSafe starts contest to name crash test dummies

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TyreSafe has announced an online competition for members of the public to name their new crash test dummies and be entered in a competition to win £50 in iTunes vouchers. The organisation says it has just “adopted” a family of four new animated crash test dummies, which will be used to help promote tyre safety. The family will give drivers tyre safety tips, information and advice. Entrance to the competition is accessed through the TyreSafe website at www.tyresafe.org/thenamegame, with the competition closing at 17:00 on 31 March.

15th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook to support Gardemeister in IRC campaign

Motorsport

Hankook Tire says it is aiming for championship success in the 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC) after signing up to support driver Toni Gardemeister and his team. The Finnish driver will contest selected rounds in a Hankook shod Skoda S2000, beginning with next month’s Rally Canarias.

10th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin X-Ice North “pleases” teams in WRC comeback

News

Michelin has returned to the World Rally Championship in Sweden, providing its X-Ice North tyre to Mikko Hirvonen, who produced what Michelin termed: “a practically mistake-free performance to claim a fine win for Ford Abu Dhabi WRT and the brand new Fiesta RS WRC”. The manufacturer was pleased with the tyre’s performance in challenging, varied conditions: Falling snow greeted the early stages, while on others portions of gravel gradually became exposed as the cars cut through the icy coating. Michelin said the tyres “were still equipped with practically all their [384] studs at the ends of the long looping stages”. Current WRC regulations only permit manufacturers to run one type of tyre per rally.

15th February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin becomes official tyre of Sebring

News, Premium

Michelin has become the official tyre of Florida’s Sebring International Raceway, a move that coincides with the US launch of the Pilot Super Sport – a product featured on the new signage displayed around the Sebring track. The signage will make its debut in front of an audience of over 175,000 fans attending the Twelve Hours of Sebring race weekend on March 16 to 19. “It is very fitting that we begin the North American launch of our outstanding new Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyre here at Sebring, the home of America’s premier sports car endurance event, the Twelve Hours of Sebring,” commented Don Byrd, vice-president, marketing, Michelin Americas Small Tires.

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8th February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

TyreReviews website suggests need for increased nuance in tyre categorisation

News

TyreReviews website is suggesting “an easier, more consistent” way to help drivers select the tyre best suited to their needs: a vastly increased number of categories into which tyre types could be sorted. With the wide range of tyres on the market currently describing themselves as “high performance”, for example, the website’s designer and administrator Jonathan Benson believes that some more levels of differentiation could benefit the consumer, in addition to his own website, on which the consumer-reviewed tyres are grouped into 37 unique categories.

3rd February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Porsche drivers win N-spec Pilot Sport PS2 tyres in Michelin promo

News

Porsche fanatics David and Veronica Teer from Bodmin, Cornwall have won a set of Michelin’s N-specification Pilot Sport PS2 tyres for their Porsche 996 Carrera 2 Coupe, having entered a Michelin promotional competition run in collaboration with Porsche Centres. The competition required entrants to identify the N-marking Michelin puts on the sidewall of tyres designed specifically for Porsche.

2nd February 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Desert Race tyre helps teams to top Dakar podium on its debut

Motorsport

Michelin has reported the success of the maiden competitive appearance of the Michelin Desert Race tyre on the 2011 Dakar. Last Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina Spanish rider Marc Coma and his MRW Rally Factory Team-run KTM and Frenchman Cyril Despres with Team Red Bull KTM finished first and second respectively, both having run on the new Michelin tyre. The tough 9,500km event included 5,000km of against-the-clock action over some of Argentina and Chile's most difficult tracks and trails.

28th January 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama HPT Introduces A005 Radial Tyre for UK’s Sports2000 Series

Motorsport

The UK distributor for Yokohama tyres, Yokohama HPT, has announced the introduction of a new specification race tyre to the UK. The A005, developed for the Sports2000 race series, replaces the now discontinued bias tyre used by the series. Sports2000 has exclusively used Yokohama tyres, supplied by George Polley Motorsport, for 25 years, up to and including 2010. The series is based on sports prototype-style single seaters, using either the Ford Pinto or Duratec engine and its value and fun-conscious approach means huge grids every season.

26th January 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Nankang Reports “Record Sales” in 2010

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Nankang Rubber Tire representatives have reported an increase in sales of 28.7 per cent in 2010, making it “a record year” for the company. Despite the appreciation of the Taiwan new dollar’s exchange rate, Nankang says it achieved a 28.7 pr cent increase in operating income year-on-year, having reached figures of 13,618,253 thousand Taiwan dollars (£468.9 million) in comparison with 10,581,829 thousand Taiwan dollars (£364.7 million) in 2009.

25th January 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Awarded ‘Bolster’ for F1 Technical Achievements

News

At this year’s Autosport Awards, held in London on December 5, Bridgestone became the recipient of a John Bolster Award in recognition of the company’s technical achievements in Formula One. The accolade, named after the original technical editor of Autosport magazine, was presented by Formula One World Championship winning team principal Christian Horner to Bridgestone’s director of Motorsport, Hiroshi Yasukawa.

8th December 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Apollo Recipient of India Manufacturing Excellence Awards

News

The manufacturing practices employed by Apollo Tyres have been recognised at The Economic Times India Manufacturing Excellence Awards 2010. These awards, instituted by The Economic Times, the largest read financial daily in India, and global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, are intended to identify the best manufacturing facilities in India and map manufacturing capability, highlighting areas for improvement, through an objective and well-structured assessment process. The key considerations for a good score include global benchmarking, performance as compared to competition, supply and service to customers, quality focus, manufacturing discipline and excellence, and areas of improvement across functions.

7th December 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Dunlop Aircraft Tyres Apprentice Highly Recommended at EEF Awards

News

On November 11 the EEF announced the Midlands region winners in its 2010 Future Manufacturing Awards, and Dunlop Aircraft Tyres’ apprentice Adam Cox was honoured for the quality of his work. At a ceremony held in the Warwickshire town of Gaydon, Cox was named runner-up in the Outstanding Achievement by a Final Year Apprentice Award for his work in the design of aircraft tyres for some of the world’s newest civil and military aeroplanes.

15th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Reviews MotoGP’s 2010 Finale

News

The last race of the 2010 MotoGP season was an emotional one, marking the departure of Valentino Rossi from the Fiat Yamaha team and of Casey Stoner from Ducati, as well as a number of other riders. Conditions all weekend were good although the mornings were cold and right from the first practice laptimes were fast; in qualifying the top seven riders all lapped under the lap record and pole-man Stoner was almost 0.8seconds under it. Tyre performance was generally good all weekend, with riders favouring the harder option front slick for its extra braking stability and a mix of rear tyre choices in the race.

10th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

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