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F1 Teams Have a “Good Understanding” of 2007 Tyres – Bridgestone

With the F1 Australian Grand Prix – the first of the 2007 season – taking place on March 18 drivers are getting ample opportunity to get a better feel for the Bridgestone tyres during practice sessions. The March 16 practice sessions saw Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa shine through as the best overall performers. The first practice session began on a wet circuit, which meant that Bridgestone’s wet and extreme wet tyres were given an airing. With the second session run in much drier conditions the medium and soft dry compound tyres were put into use.

16th March 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Matador’s new Nordicca – Designed for Europe

Matador has released its third generation passenger car winter tyres, the MP59 Nordicca. Designed with an asymmetric tread pattern the company claims to be the optimal shape for meeting the demands of a UHP winter tyre, the MP59 Nordicca has been built with European conditions in mind.

27th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Get a Grip with Nordicca

Slovakia’s number one tyremaker has held their “Matador Winter Grip” event for a second year, this time at Tále in the Low Tatra Mountains. Testing on what has been called difficult and snowy terrain in weather not conducive to the event, participants were able to experience driving the company’s tyres on a range of vehicles, including models from Mercedes, Skoda, Seat, Jeep, KIA and Honda.

27th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Go Off-Road with Matador this Winter

Featuring an asymmetric tread pattern and traction improving 3D lamellas, the new MP91 Nordicca is Matador’s latest winter tyre for 4×4 vehicles.

27th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Bandag Positive Despite 2006 Complications

Bandag EMEA has released a press statement in which they describe their outlook for 2007 as ‘optimistic’. Despite what the company describes as a difficult year for the business unit, with setbacks including the loss of their major fleet customer GE TIP, Bandag believes this year will be one of opportunities, with the growth of their dealer base in 2006, which reached 5.8 per cent, continuing this year.

21st February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Warm Weather Affects Canadian Tire

Fuel and garage product retailer has blamed losses at its gasoline bars and an unseasonably warm Eastern Canadian winter for melting its fourth-quarter earnings by 8.4 per cent.

9th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Vredestein to Increase U.S. Prices Across the Board

(Akron/Tire Review) Effective February 8, Vredestein Tyres North America will increase tyre prices in the U.S. up to 4%.

The increase applies to all tyre lines, including all-season, summer and winter, and is due to the continuing escalation of raw material prices over the last year, according to Michiel Kramer, market development manager.

8th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear Launches New Tyres at Dealer Meeting

(Akron/Tire Review) At the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. dealer meeting today in Orlando, Fla., Goodyear introduced the new ultra-high performance Eagle F1 all-season tyre, an “expanded” Wrangler SR-A tyre as well as the new Ultra Grip Performance and Ultra Grip SUV winter tyres.

5th February 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Launches General Brand Winter Tyre

Continental Tire North America Inc. has released the first of an all-new winter tyre range under its General Tire brand. The range is known as Altimax and the initial tyre on offer, the Altimax Arctic, is being promoted as General Tire’s first true winter tyre.

22nd January 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

F1 No Closer in 2007 – Trulli

Formula One driver Jarno Trulli believes that racing will not become any closer in 2007 despite all the teams using the same tyres.

12th January 2007/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear, USW Resume Talks

Both Goodyear and the United Steelworkers Union have remained tight-lipped following negotiations conducted on December 18. The two parties met in a Pittsburgh hotel for the first formal talks in more than a month, and according to a union spokesperson, Goodyear made a presentation and USW negotiators took some time to review Goodyear’s information.

19th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Bridgestone Positive about F1 Tyre Progress

Following the conclusion of the initial three Formula One winters tests at the Jerez de la Frontera test circuit Bridgestone has shown signs of satisfaction with the way the ten teams (the Spyker team did not test) have adapted to the 2007 tyres.

Bridgestone Motorsport’s technical manager Hisao Suganuma commented that “Our initial impressions of the first three winter tests are very positive and I would like to thank the teams for their co-operation and hard work in their efforts to learn about the new Bridgestone Potenza tyres.”

18th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Get a Grip with Winter Tyres warns Retailer

A leading US tyre retailer is advising motorists that cars fitted with summer or all-season tyres may not be adequately prepared for safe winter driving. The Tire Rack, drawing on the results of recently conducted evaluations, claims that even those tyres marketed as being suitable for all seasons offered markedly inferior handling in icy conditions compared with vehicles fitted with winter tyres.

7th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

Michelin Receives Bolster Award

French tyre manufacturer Michelin has been honoured with a John Bolster Award for its contribution towards and success in motor racing. Pierre Dupasquier, Michelin’s former competition boss, received the trophy from former Grand Prix driver Carlos Reutemann.

4th December 2006/by Tyrepress Editors

16:30 Friday: The Most Likely Crash Time

Continental Tyres today issued a warning to motorists that between 16:00 and 17:00 on a Friday afternoon is the most common time for car accidents to occur and in November when it’s dark, cold and often wet at this time – the risk increases further. In 2005, there were 2,454 accidents on UK roads at this time – that’s 35 per cent more than occurred from 08:00 – 09:00 and nearly 50 per cent more than occurred between 09:00 and 10:00on Friday mornings.

23rd November 2006/by Tyrepress Editors