Teams racing on Bridgestone tyres dominated the Suzuka 8 Hours motorcycle endurance race in Japan on 30th July. Three different motorcycle brands shared the podium but there was only one brand of tyre between them: Bridgestone. Bridgestone-equipped Yamaha Factory Racing Team took the chequered flag for the third consecutive year, followed by Kawasaki Team Green.

Bridgestone has received a Volkswagen Group Award in the category of Innovation & Technology. Globally, just seven Volkswagen Group suppliers were beneficiaries of this award.  The Volkswagen Group Award presented by Matthias Müller, CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, and Dr. Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, Group Board of Management member with responsibility for Procurement, was received by

Bridgestone justified its confidence going into the first-ever FIM Endurance World Championship race at Slovakia Ring on Sunday, June 25, with a string of results showing the pace and reliability of its Battlax motorcycle racing tyres. The two teams supplied by Bridgestone – YART Yamaha Official EWC Team and F.C.C. TSR Honda Team – both

The FirstGroup fleet contract covers operations in the USA and Canada in addition to the UK. It is Bridgestone’s biggest commercial fleet contract in its history, a $110m, five-year deal with transport operator FirstGroup. Bridgestone will supply tyres to more than 60,000 of FirstGroup’s buses and coaches in the USA, Canada and the UK. Greg Ward, commercial sales director for Bridgestone, said:

In another thrilling duel between two R1 Yamaha machines, the Bridgestone-equipped YART Yamaha Official EWC Team finished a close runner-up at the 8 Hours of Oschersleben in Germany on May 20. YART on Bridgestone completed 318 laps less than 31 seconds behind its fellow factory-backed Yamaha team, and 3 laps ahead of the rest of