Fortune and Austone support Garret Trucksport in European Truck Racing Championship
Fortune Tires and Austone Tires are entering the Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship. Starting in 2025, the two brands from tyre manufacturer Prinx Chengshan are main sponsors of Garret Trucksport. The sponsorship includes financial support for the team and a flat-rate tyre supply for the trucks. The three-year contract was officially signed on 28 April at a press event in London.
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Goodyear to introduce new slick specification tyre for LMP2 at Le Castellet
Goodyear will debut a new slick tyre specification for LMP2 teams at the 4 Hours of Le Castellet (4 May). Goodyear says the new specification marks a step forward in performance and durability. The newly developed LMP2 slick specification builds upon the foundation of Goodyear’s existing compound. Goodyear expects the tyre to improve performance and durability for drivers across race stints, after it is introduced for the second round of the 2025 European Le Mans Series (ELMS). It will also be used for the remainder of the 2025 ELMS campaign and by all 17 LMP2 contenders entered for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.
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Maha UK renews British Truck Racing Championship team sponsorship
Maha UK has renewed its sponsorship of Bowler Racing for the 2025 British Truck Racing Championship. As a result, Maha UK’s logo appears prominently on Bowler Racing’s 2025 BTRC challenger – stamped proudly on both doors and mudguards. The livery was revealed on the eve of the 2025 season, with spectators seeing it for the first time during the season-opening qualifying session at Brands Hatch during Easter weekend.
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BTRC returns with Giti Tire Motorsport
Giti Tire Motorsport is upping the revs for the 2025 British Truck Racing Championship (BTRC) as it maintains its winning position as exclusive tyre supplier and Team Oliver Racing principal sponsor. This season also sees the heralded return of Martin Gibson, Giti Tire’s Manager – European Test Centre, who gets behind the wheel with both Stuart and Martin Oliver in a three truck Giti-liveried line-up.
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Giti Tire Motorsport by WS Racing unveils all BMW line-up
Towards the end of March, Giti Tire Motorsport by WS Racing unveiled an all-BMW line-up at the traditional 70th ADAC Westfalenfahrt, the first round of the ADAC Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS). Seen as the starting flag to the ADAC Ravenol 24-hour Nürburgring race, which will take place from 19-22 June, the four-hour endurance challenge saw the ‘Girls Only – Ready to rock the Green Hell’ team take the wheel of the BMW M4 GT4 in the SP10 category for the second successive season.
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Davanti debuts Protoura Race
The Davanti Tyres team confirms that the first track tyre in the Davanti range is now available. The Davanti Protoura Race is produced in sizes for 13- to 18-inch rims and “designed to provide unbeatable performance on the track.” Davanti Tyres is supporting the new track tyre’s release with engagements in motorsport activities, including the Swift Sport Challenge that got underway for 2025 at Brands Hatch last weekend.
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Pirelli fires up engines for European Rally Championship opener in Andalusia
Pirelli’s motorsport tyre crews are supporting the opening weekend of the European Rally Championship in Andalusia on 4-6 April. The Sierra Morena Rally is set on the regions winding tarmac roads, with 82 crews on the entry list. New Zealander Hayden Paddon won back-to-back titles in 2023 and 2024 but has chosen not to defend the title in 2025. In addition to its ERC role, Pirelli is the sole supplier and technical partner to the ERC Fiesta Rally3 Trophy, now in its second season, with seven crews taking part in Rally Sierra Morena.
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Bridgestone sole tyre supplier to 5 EWC teams in 2025
This year’s FIM Endurance World Championship (EWC) begins during the Easter weekend. Bridgestone will continue its supply of Battlax tyres to competing teams, but instead of acting as sole tyre supplier to three teams as in 2024 and preceding years, in 2025 Bridgestone will exclusively supply five teams. The newcomers are the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team and Kawasaki Webike Trickstar.
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Double today’s footprint: Hoosier expands into EMEA motorsport tyre markets
For many, the justification for investment into motorsports is the potential race-track-to-the-road transmission of both technology to consumer car tyres as well as overall brand awareness. Not so with Hoosier, which became part of the Continental Group back in 2016. For Hoosier, the brand’s single-minded focus on motorsports irrespective of the fact that they have no pure road going tyres is a strength. As company executives put it, Hoosier is the only brand that is all-in on motorsports. As a result, the emphasis is on making the best-performing motorsport tyres as well as focusing on the motorsports tyres customers themselves. Nevertheless, to communicate such messages across continents and even around the globe with a series like FIA WRX, which Hoosier became exclusive official tyre supplier to in 2023, requires marketing and raising brand awareness. With that in mind, as well as Hoosier’s stated aim of expanding into the EMEA region, Tyres & Accessories spoke with executives including Joerg Burfien, president and CEO of Hoosier Tire and Martin Heckers, head of Hoosier Europe.
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Dunlop announces new motorcycle racing tyre tech for Italian CIV series
Dunlop has announced new tyre option for riders in the in the Campionato Italiano Velocità (CIV). The exclusive tyre supplier to all classes in the Italian series said it is refining its track tyre technology to build on a successful debut season. Dunlop will offer a new softer rear compound in the Supersport 600NG category, which last year saw six different winners across the twelve races and featured grids of more than 40 bikes. Superbike riders get a new front tyre which has a new construction to improve braking stability. Dunlop is also offering a new rear compound for qualifying, helping riders to push for rapid lap times over one or two laps longer than with the previous tyre.
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Motorsports in 2025 – Bridgestone outlines engagements
Bridgestone Corporation has announced its 2025 motorsports plan, a programme that involves continued support for various series at home in Japan and around the world, ranging from top-level professional championships to grassroots amateur races. As in past years, the tyre maker will use these engagements as a “mobile laboratory” to aid its development of aftermarket car and motorcycle tyres.
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OSRAM announces renewed sponsorship of BTCC
Lighting specialist, OSRAM, has revealed it is continuing its support of the NAPA racing team for British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) this year. Continuing with its sponsorship of NAPA Racing, the OSRAM logo will appear on the front of the car under both headlights on all four NAPA racing cars.
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Prometeon supplies Copa Truck 2025 again
Prometeon is renewing is role as official tyre supplier of the Copa Truck championship, a popular truck competition held at Brazil’s most famous racing circuits. Based in Milan’s Bicocca district, Prometeon will continue to be the official tyre supplier for the 2025 season, which will start at the Campo Grande circuit in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Prometeon will also serve as the championship sponsor.
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Dixon, Piqueras set new best race laps on Pirelli tyres in Moto2, Moto3
British rider Jake Dixon (Boscoscuro) and Ángel Piqueras (KTM) set new record laps significantly faster in both Moto2 and Moto3 than those set in 2022 on Pirelli tyres at the weekend. Dixon sealed victory by sprinting from the second position on the grid, and achieving the new best race lap, with 1’41.639 on the seventh lap, almost 1.2 seconds faster than the record set by Celestino Vietti in 2022, and over eight-tenths faster than the previous all-time lap record. In Moto2, 18 out of 27 riders lapped under the former best race lap, and 11 of them even under the previous all-time lap record.
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Pirelli’s P Zero DHH and Cinturato WHB GT racing tyres complete Paul Ricard test
Pirelli has completed its GT World Championship group test at Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard circuit, with a rain flooded track on day one and weak sunshine over a mostly dry track on the second. The test featured the new P Zero DHH tyres for dry conditions and the Cinturato WHB for the wet, all tested by the 57 GT cars in the Prologue. Collectively the cars completed 10,320 laps, equivalent to over 57,000 kilometres, from which Pirelli engineers, working from a mobile laboratory trackside, acquired an impressive amount of data.
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