Here and Now with John Bowe

The new Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2s are at least 25 percent quieter, well to my ear anyway, have much better dry grip, and incomparably better wet road performance in both lateral grip and braking

Tander and Whincup Reign Supreme in Townsville

Tander won the 49th race of his career to surpass the great Peter Brock, labelling it a better victory than his last Bathurst 1000 title and then said it’s only the start. He now sits behind contemporaries Mark Skaife and Craig Lowndes on the all-time winners list.

Four Isle of Man TT Wins for Dunlop in 2011

The Supersport and Superstock victories were achieved using Dunlop’s D211 GP tyre, with a road legal tread pattern, homologated for race use and built at Dunlop’s Motorsport department in Birmingham. The technology developed for this tyre is applied to Dunlop’s road legal GP Racer D211 tyres.

Dunlop Cars Winds LMP2 at Le Mans 24 Hours

Dunlop tyres ran on 17 of the 56 cars at the 79th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours.Dunlop tyres completed a total of 3868 laps, approximately 52,444 kilometres or 32,587 miles during the course of the race. Dunlop brought 4500 tyres to Le Mans, in 10 tyre trailers with 36 service personnel.

New Goodyear and Dunlop websites go live; Focus on Improving Customer Experience Online

Both the Goodyear and Dunlop sites have been re-launched after being completely redesigned and rebranded to allow consumers to view products and interact with the brands more easily……“From a technical perspective, the simplified navigation will make it much easier for users to interact with our brands, and the sites have also been optimised for search engines which will make it easier for people to find us.

Finke a Happy Hunting Ground for Hunter

Colin Hunter, Simon Campbell and their new V6 twin-turbo Dodge Ram made their second appearance for the year in the ‘Extreme 4WD’ class of the Australian Off Road Championship, which is open to highly modified 4WD vehicles with engines not exceeding 6000c.

The Finke Desert Race is a 460km event run over two days every Queen’s Birthday weekend…

The Hungarian Grand Prix from a Tyre Point of View

The Hungaroring is the slowest permanent circuit on the Formula One calendar – with full throttle applied for only about 10 seconds per lap – and the action for this Hungarian Grand Prix is complicated by the risk of rain, which is forecast intermittently for the rest of the weekend. The track has been lightly modified from last year, with the gravel traps on turns three, eight and nine replaced by run-off asphalt, in the interests of safety.

Pirelli Half Year Results for 2011

At the consolidated level, the Pirelli Group closed the first half with revenues of 2,789.3 million euros, an increase of 17.7 per cent compared with the same period of 2010, and an operating result (EBIT) after restructuring costs of 290.1 million euros, an increase 51.2 per cent year-on-year.

Bridgestone to boost US production with $135M investment

Bridgestone [Bridgestone-Logo-250] has announced it will be investing US$135 million into its Aiken County factory in the United States.

This investment is expected to increase its output of passenger car and light truck tyres by an additional 4,750 units a day, starting from the second quarter of 2013.

Pirelli Confirmed as Official Tyre Supplier to the FIM Superbike World Championship for 2013-2015 Seasons

Pirelli has been renewed as the Official Tyre Supplier to the FIM Superbike World Championship after a new contract was signed between Pirelli and Infront Motor Sports. The agreement secures Pirelli its current role in the World Championship as unique racing tyre supplier for the four racing classes through the end of 2015.