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Dunlop, the
sole tyre supplier to the V8 Supercar Championship Series, will
introduce a new, control tyre at Darwin’s Hidden Valley July 4-6.
Kevin Fitzsimons, Dunlop’s V8 Supercar operations manager, said that
the new control
tyre is a result of
Dunlop
wanting to improve the
current control tyre’s ingredients.
“Dunlop’s
product development team is continually looking at ways of improving
not only the performance of its road and race tyres, but also the
tyre’s ingredients,” Mr Fitzsimons said.
“The
only difference from our control tyre introduced in 2002 to the tyre
released at Hidden Valley is that we’ve replaced the oil-based
additive in the polymer binding agent of the tyre compound with a
synthetic material.
“The
sustainable binding agent will not compromise the tyre’s speed or
grip levels, and our testing actually indicates an improvement in
the
tyre’s performance – it will be business as usual on the race
track,” he said.
Former V8 Supercar driver John Bowe said that the new control tyre
was tested by selected Holden and Ford teams at Phillip Island two
days after the Dunlop Grand Finale in December and drivers gave the
tyre the thumbs up. |
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