Michelin as been announced as official tyre supplier for the new FIA Formula E Championship – providing tyres for electric cars to compete in street circuit races across the world. Michelin, who withdrew from traditional F1 in 2006, will supply racing tyres for each car in the Formula E Championship which expects to include 20 […]

Formula One is on the way in less than a month! So what does 2013 hold for us? The start of the 2012 season was certainly an interesting battle with the championship battle all over the place. It looked like Alonso had the drivers’ championship under control by half-way through the season which was impressive […]

Jenson Button is now the number one driver at McLaren, and Sergio Perez is the team’s number two. Button is excited by the prospect of being the team’s number one driver and is looking forward to the 2013 season. Jenson Button is a very talented racing driver and for the last few years must have […]

Pirelli have certainly shaken up the strategies for all of the F1 teams since they have been sponsoring Formula 1. Pirelli tyres claim to have revolutionised their F1 tyres and are promising to bring all the teams back to a level playing field in 2013. So what does 2013 have in store for Pirelli tyres? Pirelli […]

It’s not too much longer until the new season of Formula 1 and 2013 is set to bring more exciting races and feature more pit stops. Changes to Pirelli’s tyres in the construction and the rubber compounds means that they will need to be changed more frequently. This will mean that drivers will need to […]

So the F1 season is over for another year. The Pirelli tyres used on the cars this year helped create a thrilling and certainly an unpredictable season. A whopping 23,500 were used throughout the duration of the year – 21,400 dry tyres and 2,100 wet tyres – thats an awful lot of rubber! Read on to […]

Dunlop has been the supplier to the British Historic Rally championship for the last four years, but as they have now decided to move to a more open choice, tyres will also be supplied by Pirelli, Kumho and Dmack in 2013. The championship organisers have taken this move now since there are more tyre manufacturers […]

Avon Tyres is going to be the official tyre supplier for the European GT4 Cup and Dutch GT4 Championship for the next three years, demonstrating their reputation as a “world class supplier” of the product. Happily for the United Kingdom manufacturing industry, all the tyres for both championships will be manufactured in the UK at […]

The Malaysian Grand prix was certainly an exciting race, with lots of activity throughout the race. Having watched the qualifying race on Saturday it looked like it would be a dead cert with both the McLaren drivers starting at the front of the grid. Lewis Hamilton was on pole position for the second race and […]

The Village on the Curves at the Le Mans 24 Hours, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, will be sponsored by Pirelli this year. Situated on the 8.5 mile Circuit se la Sarthe at a spectacular vantage point, the Village on the Curves was previously called the Porsche Owners International Village. The Porsche […]