Category: Falken

Competing on Falken AZENIS race tyres for the first time, Max Kruse Racing’s Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR scored a class win in the NLS endurance series at the Nürburgring last weekend.

Falken, with the help of its German distributor Point-S Deutschland GmbH have equipped, free of charge, the standby vehicles of the German Red Cross (DRK) with new tyres to support its ongoing efforts against the Covid-19 crisis.

This season’s Premier League fixtures may now be back underway, but one thing that’s been ready and awaiting football’s return for some time is the Liverpool Football Club team bus.

Falken Motorsports has said it is satisfied that it can implement a range of procedures for its drivers and team members to resume its 2020 testing.

For the fourth consecutive year, a Falken summer tyre has achieved the accolade of ‘exemplary’ in the Auto Bild Summer Tyres Test.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries (SRI), whose European affiliate is Falken Tyre Europe, and Ibaraki University in Japan have established a new technique to observe and analyse individual materials within tyre rubber.

Falken has been approved by Audi for OE fitment for the A1 citycarver. The Falken Azenis FK510 will be equipped to the hatchback in the dimension 205/55R17. It joins the compact SUV Audi Q3 that is also being equipped with Falken summer tyres as standard since 2018.

Falken has confirmed its 2020 motorsport plans, announcing it will run a pair of the latest specification GT3 Porsche 911 GT3 R cars in both the Nürburgring Endurance Series (formerly known as the VLN) and the Nürburgring 24h race.

Packed with technology in and under the surface, Falken’s new Sincera SN110 car tyre aims to bring the wear and wet grip benefits normally found in top-of-the-range tyres to cost-conscious customers driving mass market cars.

Falken has released a short film that looks back at the tyre manufacturer’s participation in the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

Falken’s winter tyres will be tested in Arnemark, Sweden from now on, when Sumitomo Rubber Europe GmbH (SREU) opens a new winter test track.