Pirelli has launched a new winter initiative for the UK, which aims to reward customers who purchase winter tyres. The benefits of cold weather tyres are only felt if temperatures fall lower than seven degrees Celsius so Pirelli has guaranteed a 50% refund should temperatures remain higher for more than 30 days.
Pirelli will remain as F1’s sole tyre supplier in a deal that is understood to last for five years. The Italian firm’s future had been in doubt following a number of blow-outs during the opening half of the season – most notably at the British Grand Prix – which caused a spate of negative publicity
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has taken his 33rd career victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, using a two-stop strategy. Vettel’s victory from pole ensures that the Singapore Grand Prix continues its unbroken record of only ever having been won by world champions.
For the first time in six years, the Pirelli-supported MINI Challenge will compete on European soil as the one-make racing series prepares for the penultimate round of the year in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, this weekend (7-8 September).
Formula One will travel to the home of Pirelli this weekend as the championship prepares for the fastest round of the year: Monza. Ahead of Pirelli’s home race, the tyre firm produced a special video focusing on the influence that camber and tyre pressures can have on a car’s performance. English version: www.studiovandone.com/PIRELLI/PISTE/PIR_Italy_ENG_LT.zip
The Pirelli Winter Tyre Collection comprises a range of tyres for use on city cars, medium powered vehicles, prestigious supersports cars and SUVs for driving in extreme winter weather conditions and earlier this year, the latest edition to the range was launched, the new Winter Sottozero 3.
Pirelli Star Driver Mark Donnelly has finished third overall after a polished drive on his home event: the Todds Leap Rally, round four of the British Rally Championship. Osian Pryce took the overall win, marking the Welshman’s first ever win in the coveted British rally series.
Pirelli’s P Zero race tyres performed faultlessly in sweltering conditions at the Slovakia Ring last weekend as the Pro-Am entry of Andreas Simonsen and Sergri Afanasiev took a deserved overall victory at the fourth round of the FIA GT series. Pirelli has highlighted its commitment to endurance racing in 2013 by agreeing terms to
Pirelli Star Driver Mark Donnelly will return to the Pirelli-supported British Rally Championship following the summer break determined to secure a season-best result in front of home fans on this weekend’s Todds Leap Rally NI (23-24 August), part of the Ulster Rally. With as many as 150 crews taking part in the various events that
A sparkling grid of 38 GT cars will take to Silverstone Grand Prix circuit this weekend for round five of the spectacular GT Cup Championship which uses Pirelli as its official tyre supplier.
Dominic Whalley, from Tuam, Co. Galway has won a Pirelli rally jacket in the Findatyre.ie social media competition for July. FindaTyre.ie, the leading online directory of tyre retailers, as part of its social media campaign is currently running a monthly online promotion for a sporty rally jacket. Whalley was the winner of the July competition,