Category: Dunlop

The Dunlop National Rally Championship concludes on Sunday next with the Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally in Bantry in West Cork. The nine stage encounter that meanders through some of the most spectacular scenery along Bantry Bay, Dunmanus Bay and Mount Gabriel will determine the outstanding issues within the popular eight round series.

Jonny McMullan from Newtownabbey, Co Antrim has been selected as the Dunlop Young Racing Driver of the Month for September. The 21 year-old won the second Formula Ford 1600 race at the Leinster Trophy meeting at Mondello Park, having earlier finished fourth in race one. Jonny McMullan in action at Mondello Park. Two weeks later,

Goodyear Dunlop has today launched its flagship retail partnership programme in Ireland, with the long-term aim of building a network of Goodyear Dunlop accredited retailers across the country.

Dunlop is launching its new Winter Response 2, a winter tyre for small and compact cars. The tyre offers an impressive performance when braking and handling in winter conditions. Building on the European tyre label which has been mandatory since November 2012, the Winter Response 2 offers a B rating in wet grip on 16

Dunlop, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high and ultra high performance tyres, has developed the tyres gracing the rims of the new Opel Monza Concept car, revealed at the 65th International Motor Show (2013) in Frankfurt today.

Newly crowned Dunlop National Rally champions, Donegal cousins, Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) are the top seeds for Sunday’s penultimate round of the national series, the Carlton Shearwater Galway Summer Rally.

Colm Blackburn from Dublin has been selected as the Dunlop Young Racing Driver of the Month for July, for his performances in the Formula Vee class.

Dunlop has carried out extensive analysis on data from a tyre test carried out at the Mireval circuit at the end of July. During that test Dominique Aegerter broke the Moto2 lap record for the circuit by nine-tenths of second.

The Summer X Games in Los Angles, California, USA always deliver hours of exciting viewing to millions of extreme sports fans, and the competition in 2013 seemed better than ever. Dunlop athletes fared very well; in the eight Moto X categories, Dunlop-sponsored riders scored 23 of 24 podium positions. In the dry, hard-packed track conditions

Donegal cousins, Declan and Brian Boyle (Subaru WRC) clinched the Dunlop National Rally Championship with a resounding victory in the Clonmel based Sepam Tipperary Stonethrowers Rally last weekend.

Dunlop is set to co-operate with the Red Bull sponsored FMX4Ever freestyle motocross team. As part of this new co-operation, Dunlop will provide advanced off-road motorcycle tyres for the team.