Having been the sole supplier to the F1 feeder series Auto GP since 2012, Kumho has always strived to provide drivers with the experience and familiarity with the type of tyre they would face within Grand Prix racing.
Richard Hill and Pat Cooper took their newly-built MKII Ford Escort to an historic win in the recent Red Kite Historic Stages event – the opening round of the West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship.
Sangkyu Lee has taken over as Kumho Tire Europe’s president. Lee has worked for Kumho since 1988 in a range of divisions, including as regional sales director in Egypt, Mexico, Spain and as managing director for the company’s French subsidiary.
Kumho has been growing its OE commitments to the world’s major manufacturers for many years now and its partnership with Daimler AG dates back to 2007. Now this already very fruitful liaison has been expanded to include the recently revised Mercedes-Benz G-Class.
Second place on the recnt Orchard Motorsport Cork 20 event was sufficient to land Garry Jennings his first Irish Tarmac Rally Championship title. Relying on Kumho tyres for his grip and Rory Kennedy for his pacenotes, Jennings overcame early concerns about the health of his Subaru Impreza’s engine to bring the car home behind Daragh
Kumho has been growing its OE commitments to the world’s major manufacturers for many years now and its partnership with Daimler AG dates back to 2007. Now this already very fruitful liaison has been expanded to include the recently revised Mercedes-Benz G-Class. The tyre in question is the Kumho Solus KL21 in size 265/60 R18
Mattias Adielsson has clinched the R2 class of the hotly-contested Swedish Rally Championship in his Kumho-shod Peugeot 208, with one round of the series still to run. Mattias and co-driver Christoffer Bäck were sufficiently far in the lead of the competition at the start of the recent East Sweden event that they only really needed
Marty McCormack and Phil Clarke slid their Kumho-shod MKII Escort to a fourth consecutive victory on September 8’s Red Kite Historic Stages event, thereby clinching the inaugural West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship with one round still to run.
Breaking the lap record round BBC Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold, Surrey has become a preoccupation of supercar manufacturers the world over. However, far from being a heavily-funded global producer, the latest contender was the diminutive UK-based Briggs Automotive Company (BAC), whose innovative 285bhp Mono recently circulated in just 1 minute 14.3 seconds, thereby
The 2013 rally season is still young, but Kumho is already making its mark on the UK championships. For example, Alex Allingham’s ex-Prodrive Subaru Impreza N10 that took outright honours on March 3’s Rally Marketing Mid-Wales Stages event, did so on Kumho gravel tyres. The rally was the first occasion on which Stalybridge-based Allingham and
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