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F1 "Matching Pirelli's Global Ambition”: Hembery

With Formula One’s Drivers Championship still in the balance heading to the final meeting in Abu Dhabi – Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and technically Lewis Hamilton are all in with a chance – Bridgestone is getting the epic final season it surely hoped for. Abu Dhabi also represents a landmark for the new tyre supplier for 2011, as Pirelli will display and test its new tyre during the weekend, following lengthy tests with F1 drivers Nick Heidfeld, Roman Grosjean and latterly Pedro de la Rosa. Tyres & Accessories spoke to Pirelli’s Motorsport director, Paul Hembery about the advantages of being involved in Formula One, and what can be expected in the next three years while Pirelli is supplying the sport’s tyres.

9th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone to Make Final F1 Appearance at Abu Dhabi GP

After fourteen continuous seasons at the pinnacle of international motorsport, Bridgestone makes its final Formula One appearance at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. At the end of this race, Bridgestone will have contested a total of 242 Grands Prix since making its full time F1 entry at the Australian Grand Prix in 1997. There will have been 175 wins, 168 pole positions and eleven drivers’ and constructors’ championships attained with Bridgestone Potenza tyres.

9th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli Renews BSB Control Tyre Supply Contract

For the past three years Pirelli has served as control tyre supplier to the British Superbike (BSB) and Supersport Championships, providing riders with a range of its Diablo tyres, some 5,500 of which are supplied and fitted over a typical race weekend by a team of 17 tyre technicians. Series organiser MotorSport Vision Ltd has now confirmed that Pirelli will continue in this role after successfully bidding for the supply tender covering the 2011 to 2015 seasons.

9th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Vettel, Webber, Alonso Podium in Brazil Sets Up Epic Abu Dhabi Finale

Bridgestone’s penultimate Formula 1 race saw the three major contenders for the Formula One Drivers Championship take the podium places. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber both closed the gap on Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari with a one-two that helped the team seal the Constructors’ Championship. All three drivers used the same super soft – medium Bridgestone Potenza tyre strategy. In contrast to the damp qualifying session, the race saw hot and dry weather conditions.

8th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Australian Formula Ford Extends Contract with Avon

The Genuine Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship has extended its deal with Avon Tyres, with the brand continuing as the championship’s control tyre supplier for at least the next three years. Avon’s tyres will be distributed and engineered through the season by Gordon Leven Motorsport Tyres, which continues its 15-year involvement supplying Avon rubber to the championship. All tyres will be manufactured at Cooper Tire’s plant in Melksham, England.

8th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Power Cup 2010 Results

Last weekend saw the 2010 Michelin Power Cup race series draw to a close as the final round took place at a cloudy but mainly dry Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire. In the 1000cc class Jonathan Otter took first place with second and third places taken by Greg Allsop and Rhalf Lo Turco, respectively. In the 600cc class, Will Monie took the top spot with Adrian Allsopp and Andy Rouse following in second and third places.

5th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Celebrates 100 WTC Races in “Incredibly Busy” Motorsport Year

Japanese tyre manufacturer Yokohama celebrated its 100th race as official tyre supplier to the FIA World Touring Car Championship earlier this year, having supplied the control tyre to the series since 2006. Commenting on the season, Yokohama HPT’s Motorsport manager, Mark Evans, said: “We’ve seen another exceptional year of competition in the WTCC, which is a superb environment to showcase the brand’s performance.” The ADVAN wet and dry racing tyres have drawn critical acclaim from the competitors, with the manufacturer developing products that suit both the front and rear wheel drive cars competing.

5th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Kumho Mentioned in BBC Motorsport Coverage

Kumho reports that it enjoyed 4mins and 35secs of exposure during the BBC’s recent Korean Grand Prix coverage. Not in relation to F1, but through footage of the recent rally success of the show’s ebullient anchorman, Jake Humphrey, and long-standing Kumho-sponsored rally driver and Sky TV pundit, Tony Jardine.

The event, the Cambrian Rally, was Humphrey’s first ever rally and he took to the sport sufficiently quickly to guide the Ford-Fiesta-mounted pair to an impressive second in class. Running on Kumho rally tyres, their Fiesta was suitably adorned with Kumho stickers, while Kumho logos were clearly visible on the crew’s overalls. The team’s exploit’s also received a good airing in The Sun newspaper, which was another of their sponsors.

4th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook’s Mikkelsen to Build on Scottish 2nd in IRC Final Round

Hankook says it is ready to round off its Intercontinental Rally Challenge campaign in style with driver Andreas Mikkelsen when Cyprus hosts the final round this weekend. The Norwegian finished second overall in the recent Rally of Scotland and is hoping to be back on the podium on the FXPro Cyprus Rally which gets underway on Thursday. Mikkelsen and co-driver Ole Fløene will once again be in the Hankook Ford Fiesta S2000 – the M-Sport prepared car the team has used during its 2010 programme of events.

2nd November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Heads to “Important Market” for Penultimate F1 Meeting

Bridgestone heads to Sao Paulo with its medium and super soft compound Potenza tyres for the penultimate round of the Formula One season on 5-7 November. “Brazil is a fantastic country and the South Americas are very important markets with good growth so it is natural for Bridgestone to appreciate the strong presence here provided by the Brazilian Grand Prix,” said Hiroshi Yasukawa, director of Bridgestone Motorsport.

1st November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Lorenzo Wins on Dry Tyres after Two-Day Deluge

The inability to test slick tyres before the race did not prevent heir apparent to the MotoGP crown, Jorge Lorenzo from reasserting his dominance of the 2010 Championship following a run of victories for Casey Stoner, who lost the rear wheel of his Ducati in the final bend of lap five. Lorenzo comfortably beat his teammate Valentino Rossi to claim the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril, both riders using the medium front and rear Bridgestone slicks.

1st November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo Tires Enjoys “Successful” Goodwood Revival

Having attended Goodwood events in the past Toyo Tires has reported another “successful” year at the Goodwood Revival, at which it was the exclusive Tyre Partner for the first time. To mark the occasion, VIP Toyo customers previewed two brand new road tyres in the Proxes range, the ultra high performance Proxes T1 Sport and the Proxes C1S, tyres built for performance and ride comfort respectively. Both tyres will be made available from 2011. Toyo said that it was looking forward to continuing its deal with the event in 2011.

27th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

MotoGP Heads into First of Back-to-back Concluding Races

The Portuguese Grand Prix this weekend represents the first half of the final back-to-back pairing of the 2010 MotoGP season. The Riders’ and Teams’ championships have been clinched, by Jorge Lorenzo and the Fiat Yamaha Team, but the Constructors’ title is still up for grabs, as is second position in the riders’ championship. Additionally Estoril is described as one of the most technically challenging races on the calendar for Bridgestone’s tyres with a multitude of different corner characteristics, corner loads and surfaces, meaning that a well-balanced setup is important to allow the tyres to perform consistently throughout a lap.

26th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Pleased with Positive MotoGP Tyre Feedback

Bridgestone’s motorcycle tyre developers have declared themselves pleased with the “positive feedback” they received from MotoGP riders in Australia following the use of its extra-soft compound in the rear tyres.

26th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli and FIA Announce 2011 Star Drivers for WRC

While Pirelli is exiting its World Rally Championship tyre supply deal at the end of this year to plough its motorsport resources into some sort of single-seater track series, its involvement in the 2011 WRC will live on in the six young competitors from around the world that triumphed in the Pirelli Star Driver Global Shoot-Out, which finished Sunday in Salou, Spain. The winning six – cut down from 16 – will become part of the FIA’s young driver programme which will be integrated into the newly-created WRC Academy next year. The six drivers will contest six rounds of the 2011 FIA World Rally Championship in Ford Fiesta R2s.

25th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors