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Posted on March 20, 2007 @ 9:38 am [Comments (0)]
Kumho tyres will be the new sponsor of the British Rallycross Championships and is set to be the main sponsor for the next three years. They will also be supplying tyres to the teams – the teams will have the chance to try out the new tyres in a test session on the 31st March.
The first race in the Kumho Tyres brc British Rallycross Champoinship will be at Lydden on Easter Monday (the 9th April). It will also be the 40th anniversary of the first rallycross event held at Lydden and stars from rallycross past and present are expected to attend. There will also be a classic rallycross to mark the anniversary.
Posted on March 19, 2007 @ 9:32 am [Comments (0)]
New F1 rules state that Bridgestone have to mark the softer of the tyres in use over race weekends so that spectators can see which teams are using which tyres. However, after the Australian Grand Prix this weekend, the 3cm white circle on the softer of the tyres in use for each race cannot be seen when the cars are moving at speed. This means that several of the critics were right and that the white circle does indeed merge with the Bridgestone logo on the tyres when they are moving at speed.
Posted on March 15, 2007 @ 9:58 am [Comments (0)]
Bridgestone have confirmed that tyre markings that they will be using for their F1 tyres. The softer of the two tyre types for each race will be marked with a white circle which is 3cm in diameter.
Some of the teams are not happy about the time it has taken to release this information regarding the tyre markings, with the Australian Grand Prix only a few days away. The two types of Bridgestone tyres that will be used at this week’s Australian Grand Prix will be the Soft and Medium tyres.
Posted on March 13, 2007 @ 9:46 am [Comments (0)]
Bridgestone have announced which tyres will be used during the first five races of the Grand Prix season.
Bridgestone had a choice of super soft, soft, medium and hard of which they had to choose two tyres for each race. All 11 teams will be using the tyres that Bridgestone have chosen.
The first race in Australia this weekend will be on soft and medium tyres. The races in Malaysia, Bahrain and Spain with be on medium and hard tyres. The Monaco race will be on super-soft and soft tyres. Bridgestone are yet to release details for the remaining races.
Posted on March 8, 2007 @ 9:32 am [Comments (0)]
Formula One will be introducing a new tyre identification rule for the start of the new race season. This will allow spectators to see which tyres teams are using as all teams will have to use both hard and soft Bridgestone tyres during each race.
Formula One haven’t announced how the tyres will be marked yet, but the race teams are not happy about the new rule, due to the fact that teams will be able to see each others tyre race strategies. The markings will also need to be bold enough for spectators to identify the tyres used whilst the cars are in motion around the track.
Posted on March 1, 2007 @ 11:21 am [Comments (0)]
Honda have revealed their new F1 car, but it is fair to say that it is different from the other F1 cars this year. Honda’s new F1 car has no sponsorship logos and the car is decorated like a photo of the world.
Honda have taken the new move to raise awareness of ongoing environmental issues and have called their new F1 car the ‘Earth Car’. In Honda’s press release they talked about how if all F1 viewers turned their computer off at the plug over-night, this can save 45,000 tonnes of CO2 pollution every year. There is only one piece of advertising on the car in the form of a website address which is displayed on the car’s rear wing. Having looked at the website, it simply advertises the car and allows you to have a 360 degree view of the car, not forgetting the chance to make a pledge to relevant charities.
Posted on February 23, 2007 @ 10:32 am [Comments (0)]
Bridgestone have just announced that they will only be supplying four different types of tyre to F1 teams in 2007.
The four different types of dry weather tyre will be Hard, Medium, Soft and Super Soft, of which two types will have to be chosen for each grand prix race. Along with this is the new grand prix ruling which states that every driver must use at least one set of their tyres in dry weather races.
On the negative side for grand prix teams using Bridgestone tyres, Bridgestone tyres are currently around two seconds slower a lap than their main competitor Michelin’s tyres.
