Goodyear Blimp visiting Le Mans in 100th anniversary tour
Hundreds of thousands of fans at the 24 Hours of Le Mans will be able to see the Goodyear Blimp in the skies above next weekend’s race as part of a special 100th anniversary tour for the iconic airship. This year, Goodyear celebrates 100 years of its most famous ambassador, with a packed schedule of appearances that includes the tyre brand’s biggest ever 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Honda adventure bike series to run on Dunlop Trailmax Raid
Honda has chosen Dunlop as an official event partner of Honda Adventure Roads 2025, the manufacturer’s guided, cross-border motorcycle adventure series. Dunlop will equip all 30 riders on the tour with sets of its acclaimed 50/50 on/off-road tyre, the Trailmax Raid. The 2025 tour begins on 8 June in Rome, Italy, with riders covering 2,500km on Honda Africa Twin motorcycles, visiting eight countries over nine days. The tour will navigate winding mountain roads, demanding off-road sections and dense forest routes before concluding in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Goodyear’s 2025 European Truck Racing Championship tyre made from 55% sustainable materials
Goodyear’s truck racing tyres for the 2025 season of the Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship (ETRC) are made from 55 per cent sustainable materials. The tyre manufacturer defines this designation as bio-based, renewable, recycled, or “material using or contributing to other practices designed to promote resource conservation and/or emissions reductions.” The 55 per cent sustainable material content has been achieved by using carefully selected ingredients, such as silica produced from waste rice husk ash and carbon black sourced from alternative feedstocks. Goodyear says this milestone reinforces its commitment to sustainability and driving innovation in the high-performance motorsport environment.
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Hankook supplies extreme all-terrain Dynapro tyres at Vodafone Rally de Portugal 2025
Hankook is in Portugal with the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) for Round 5 of the 2025 season, the Vodafone Rally de Portugal (15-18 May). Taking place across the rugged terrain in and around Matosinhos in northern Portugal, Hankook will equip the world’s top rally teams with its high-performance Dynapro-branded extreme all-terrain rally tyres throughout the event.
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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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