Tyre failure ruled out as cause of Vettel deflation

Although not much remained of the tyre afterwards, there was enough for Pirelli’s engineers to carry out a full investigation, in collaboration with Red Bull Racing. Having subjected the tyre to minute analysis, structural failure of the tyre or valve has been ruled out as a cause of the incident. Track debris or other outside circumstances cannot be excluded as a possible cause.

Pirelli Debuts 2012 Formula One Tyres at Young Driver Test

“We ran some experimental tyres on Friday in Abu Dhabi, and we’ll also be running some new tyres in Brazil.

“Together with the information we accumulate during the young driver test, we’re gathering plenty of data in preparation for next year, where we will see a reduction in lap times between the compounds to hopefully make racing even closer.

New Premises and Franchisee for JAXQuickfit Port Macquarie

Boasting a wide range of high quality tyres and the biggest display of wheels in Port Macquarie, the brand new store is also in the business of brakes and suspension – along with the associated services of alignments, balancing, repairs and nitrogen inflation.

JAXQuickfit Opens Brand New Store in Ballarat

The new JAXQuickfit Ballarat store contains a state-of-art showroom and workshop with the showroom housing floating timber floorboards, large waiting area and coffee bar.

“The JAXQuickfit Group have gone to extreme lengths in putting this store together and already, the compliments are flowing in from the local community” Damian says.

Bridgestone to Build 50th Tyre Plant

Bridgestone says the new plant will primarily serve as an export base for general use replacement market tyres sold in the European, North American and Japanese markets.

To meet rising demand within these regions in the short term, the tyre maker has increased production capacities at its Nong Khae Plant in Thailand and Karawang Plant in Indonesia; Bridgestone determined however that a new plant is necessary in order to respond to continuing growth in demand

Bridgestone Debuts 2012 MotoGP tyres

“The tyres we supplied are those that will be used for next season, but this test was the first official one for the 1000cc bikes so this is the first stage in learning these new machines so we are not resting on our laurels. We will keep learning their characteristics with each test and continue our tyre development into and through next season.

“We started developing this new family of tyres from the post-Valencia test at this time last year and used every test opportunity during this season to continue with our development programme, and I am confident what we have will be a marked step forward in addressing the specific concerns from this year

Pirelli’s 2012 tyres make their debut

The tyre design has changed slightly for next year: the latest evolutions of the P Zero tyres feature new profiles for the front and rear, and a selection of totally new compounds with only the supersoft compound unaltered. The 2012 tyres have a squarer profile, designed to distribute wear more evenly across the footprint, while the softer compounds have been adjusted to reduce the risk of blistering.

MICHELIN’s 2011 rally season: a satisfying return to the sport

“Since 2005, the WRC has evolved significantly and, despite the experience of more than 30 years MICHELIN has built up in the discipline, it was a case of starting from a blank sheet of paper as we set about developing a new range of WRC tyres, namely the PILOT SPORT for asphalt, the LATITUDE CROSS for gravel and the X-ICE NORTH for the Swedish Rally

MICHELIN LATITUDE Cross A muddy finale to crown an outstanding year!

That was rewarded by an emphatic eighth world title for Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena (CITROEN DS3 WRC), coupled with the first win of the year for Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Miika Anttila (FORD FIESTA RS WRC).

The 2011 Wales Rally GB kicked off with two short asphalt stages before moving into the country’s familiar forests where the drivers were faced with the challenge of constantly changing grip and predominantly muddy, slippery surfaces.

Pirelli Star Driver Breen Wins Inaugural WRC Academy Title

Breen won the class on the Rally GB, his second win of the season, but the result left him tied on points with Estonian Egon Kaur, who claimed the first three rallies of the season. Under the WRC Academy rules, a tie-break is decided by the number of stage wins, and with more stage wins than his rival, Breen was crowned champion.