Since the first tyre rolled off the production line on 3 December 1969, Michelin Tyre PLC has remained a bedrock of Northern Ireland’s business landscape. Today, the company celebrates the production of the 30 millionth tyre at its Ballymena factory, which is the only truck tyre manufacturing site in Ireland.
British driver Elfyn Evans has won the latest round of the Pirelli-backed WRC Academy, which took place last weekend on ADAC Rallye Deutschland, based around the German city of Trier.
Hankook sponsored Alan Lenihan finished on the podium in round 4 of the Prodrift Irish Series, which took place at Tullyroan Oval, Dungannon on the weekend of Saturday August 18-19.
Family-run steel haulage company Randall Barber Transport is saving an average of eight pence per kilometre (PPK) per tyre with Continental, with each tyre travelling up to 10,000km further compared with the fleet’s previous brand of tyres.
Multiple-championship winning tyre manufacturer Dunlop Motorsport celebrated the future power of motorsport at Silverstone at the weekend, highlighting that new fuel solution technologies can only be optimised with new tyre design concepts.
Hankook’s consumption-optimised tyre series ‘e-cube’ for heavy trucks have achieved top results in a comprehensive fuel consumption test in the DEKRA Automobile Test Centre in Klettwitz, Germany.
The WRC Academy will face a new challenge later this week when crews contest the first all-asphalt round of the Pirelli-backed series, ADAC Rallye Deutschland.
An Ascot-based agricultural contractor is seeing the benefits of getting out in the field earlier to do slurry work without damaging subsoil, thanks to Michelin’s XeoBib and CargoXBib flotation tyres.
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