Author: Brian Foley

Avon Tyres has doubled the size fitments available in its acclaimed AV11 van tyre.

In just over two weeks the Avon Tyres British GT Championship will arrive at Oulton Park, over Easter bank holiday, for the season opener of the highly successful European race series.

Japanese tyre manufacturer, Falken Tyre Europe is continuing its motorsport campaign with the proven Porsche 911 GT3 R racing the Nordschleife once again in 2015. Peter Dumbreck, Wolf Henzler, Alexandre Imperatori and Martin Ragginger will again contend selected races of the VLN Championship along with the legendary ADAC 24 hour race.

‘Billy Coleman Young Driver Of The Year 2014’ Dean Raftery had never driven a WRC car before achieving a memorable sixth place overall on the recent (February 6-8) Colm Quinn BMW Galway Rally at the wheel of a Kumho-shod BMW Mini. The result was all the more remarkable for the fact that he and co-driver

The 2013 Irish Rally Champion, Garry Jennings, heads the points after round one of the 2015 national series, despite not winning the event outright.

Tyre Safety Week in Northern Ireland, which took place in October, featured a competition to give away eight sets of new tyres to eight lucky winners.

Pirelli Star Driver Daniel McKenna heads to the latest round of the British Rally Championship, this month’s Ulster Rally, firmly in charge of the standings.

With six rounds of the FIA World Rallycross Championship completed so far in 2014, and after a four week break in the calendar which has allowed the teams to rest and prepare, the World RX of Canada (07-08 August) promises to deliver more exciting action on Cooper tyres.

Dunlop is celebrating a Which? Best Buy recommendation after its Dunlop Sport BluResponse, in size 195/65 R15 V received the coveted endorsement.

Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo has claimed his second career win to maintain his third place in the driver’s championship at the Pirelli-sponsored Hungarian Grand Prix, before Formula One’s annual summer break.

The 16 year-old Dutch motor racing sensation Max Verstappen was victorious in the 2014 Zandvoort Masters race on July 6 supported by Kumho Tyre.