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Pirelli renews WSBK supply agreement

Pirelli’s tyre supply to the FIM Superbike World Championship will continue for a further three years. Infront Motor Sports has announced that the tyre maker’s current contract for the championship has been extended from 2013 through to the end of 2015. The agreement, as has been the case since the start of the collaboration between the two companies in 2004, will also include the exclusive supply of tyres for the FIM Supersport World Championship, the Superstock 1000 FIM Cup and the UEM Superstock 600 European Championship.

27th July 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo tyre clinic and more at Goodwood Sporting Legends’ Breakfast Club

Toyo is to attend the Sporting Legends Breakfast Club on the morning of 5 June in its capacity as the official tyre partner of the Goodwood Revival. Toyo’s range of passenger car tyres, extending from road-going car fitments to racing cars and 4x4s, will be on display in paddocks 65-68, while the company will also run the Toyo Tires Tyre Clinic. Also present at the Breakfast Club will be a TVR marque celebration;
Toyo will joining TVR in celebrating its range, as the tyre brand has original equipment ties with the manufacturer.

23rd May 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone previews Qatar MotoGP

Bridgestone is taking its medium and extra hard front and its medium and hard rear compounds to Qatar for the first MotoGP of the 2011 season. The Losail International Circuit again heralds a return to action on 20 March for motorcycle racing’s top category and for Bridgestone, which returns as the official tyre supplier to the premier class for the third year. The manufacturer says that following the Tohoku earthquake, it has pledged support for the relief and recovery of its home nation and to those affected by the events of last Friday, while “doing its best in this difficult situation to ensure that MotoGP tyre supply will be uninterrupted”.

17th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyre in Ferrari 4WD OE deal

Ferrari has chosen the Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyre to be fitted as original equipment on the four-wheel drive Ferrari FF. Michelin told Tyres & Accessories at the launch of the tyre back in November 2010 that the company had worked with Ferrari – in addition to BMW and most prominently Porsche – in the development of the tyre, furthering the link between the French tyre-maker and Italian car manufacturer forged in past OE deals. The tyre has been on the market since the beginning of 2011, and is the fastest ever commercial tyre, according to testing at TÜV-SÜD Automotive.

16th March 2011/by Tyrepress Editors

Maxxis to Sponsor Australian Open

Maxxis has extended its sport sponsorship through its signing of a two-year deal to sponsor the Australian Open, the largest sports event in the southern hemisphere and the first of the annual Grand Slam tennis tournaments. In addition to being an official sponsor of the first Grand Slam event of the calendar year, Maxxis will be the official tyre of the Australian Open, which next takes place in Melbourne from January 17 to 30, 2011.

19th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

New Kumho F3 Euro Series Control Tyre

Kumho has created an all-new control tyre for the 2011 Formula 3 Euro Series. The final specification of the new tyre resulted from two days of comprehensive evaluation at the renowned Vallelunga circuit in Italy. It will be made available to the teams from the first official test session onwards.

Kumho supplied four different specifications of tyre for the 900 kilometres carried out by Dutch F3 driver Renger van der Zande – two completely new designs and two new compounds – each of which was compared with the 2010 specification covers. “The chosen tyre is incredibly good,” van der Zande commented adding: “The performance for fast qualifying laps and race pace consistency are equally remarkable.”

17th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama Supplying Macau Grand Prix Tyres for 28th Consecutive Year

When the F3 race cars take their positions on the starting for this year’s Macau Grand Prix, which gets underway on November 18, each of the 32 competing vehicles will be fitted with tyres supplied by Yokohama Rubber. This is hardly surprising, given that the Japanese tyre maker has acted as official tyre supplier to this particular race for more than a generation. This year marks the 28th consecutive occasion in which Yokohama has provided tyres for the Macau Grand Prix, having begun in the role of official tyre supplier in 1983.

17th November 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Yokohama’s Home WTCC Stage to Equal Japanese Entrant Record

Japanese racing talent will go head-to-head with some of the world’s best touring car drivers when the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) returns to Okayama, Japan, on 31 October, 2010. The home race of official tyre supplier Yokohama will have four local drivers competing, equalling the 2008 record for the most Japanese entries in a WTCC race.

22nd October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

General Tire Picks Up Jeepspeed Title Sponsorship

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In the US, General Tire has announced its title sponsorship of the 2011 General Tire Jeepspeed Challenge, a desert race series designed to give Jeep enthusiasts the opportunity to race their daily vehicle alongside other die-hard Jeep fans. The title sponsorship runs for a three-year period and the deal also involves the adoption of products from the Continental Tire the Americas brand as spec tyres. The 2011 Jeepspeed season begins in February 2011 and runs until December, during which time five challenge/cup events and two bonus events will be run.

12th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Stoner Takes Second Straight Victory at Motegi

Ducati Team’s Casey Stoner took his second victory in a row today at Motegi from third on the grid, catapulting himself into an early lead that he never relinquished, despite pressure throughout from pole man Andrea Dovizioso of Repsol Honda who crossed the line in second. In third, Valentino Rossi was victorious in a tooth-and-nail battle with his Fiat Yamaha teammate, Jorge Lorenzo after trading paint in the closing stages of what was the most nail-biting fight of the race.

4th October 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Helping Yellowstone Park Reach 30% Carbon Reduction Goal

Weaving through the almost 3,500 square miles (9,000 square kilometres) of Yellowstone National Park are more than 460 miles of roads. Each year these roads are used by some 1.1 million vehicles carrying around three million visitors. And while grizzly bears, wolves and elk are not generally a tyre maker’s area of expertise, Michelin believes it can help make a difference when it comes to the beasts that roam the park’s tarmaced areas. To do so, it serves as the official tyre of the Yellowstone Park Foundation and has announced it is helping the park achieve its goal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions within Yellowstone by 30 per cent within the next five years by providing its energy-saving tyres for the park fleet.

29th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Federal Appointed Tyre Sponsor of Malaysian Super Series and Sepang S1K

Continuing to promote its motorsport credentials, Federal Tyres has announced it will supply the official tyre for the touring car class of the Malaysian Super Series Championship (simply known as MSS) and the Sepang 1,000km endurance (S1K) race in 2010, marking the first season that Federal has sponsored the two Malaysian series.

6th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Federal Supplying UK’s Ma5da MX5 Cup

The new Ma5da MX5 Cup started on 24 April at Snetterton and continues at Rockingham, Brands Hatch and Croft during the season, with a “Winter Championship to take place at Donnington and Brands Hatch in October and November – and Taiwanese manufacturer Federal has announced that it will supply its 595 RS-R sport competition line as the official tyre of the new series throughout the year.

8th June 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Floodlit Qatar Provides Backdrop to 2010 MotoGP Curtain Raiser

Bridgestone says that it has “adopted a different approach to slick tyre compound selection” for the inaugural race of the 2010 MotoGP season, which gets underway beneath the floodlights of the Losail circuit in Qatar on 11 April. The company is making its medium and extra hard compound slicks available for the front, with mediums and hards on the rear, signifying a change in policy not only from the softer compounds of 2009, but also in the doubling of the incremental change of the front fitments.

6th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

It’s Official: Bridgestone Name on Nashville Arena

As was first reported by Tire Review, Bridgestone Americas will announce today that it has signed a naming right deal for Nashville’s downtown arena. The tyre-maker and the Nashville Predators will hold a press conference this morning to announce the multi-year deal, which will create the “Bridgestone Arena.” The facility, currently named the Sommet Center, after a local firm, serves as the NHL team’s home, and hosts a wide variety of events and concerts.

23rd February 2010/by Tyrepress Editors