Category: Pirelli

Pirelli is launching the new ST:01 Neverending Energy range of truck tyres onto the European market. Having been developed specifically for trailers and semi-trailers, ST:01 Neverending Energy is the first Pirelli tyre to score an ‘AA’ rating from the new European tyre label for rolling resistance and wet grip.

Pirelli UK driver Star Driver Jukka Korhonen claimed his first R2 class victory on the International Rally Yorkshire, the final round of the MSA British Rally Championship. Korhonen also sealed his best-ever overall finish with fifth overall against much more powerful opposition, at the wheel of his Skoda Fabia R2 run by TEG Sport.

With Tyre Safety Month in the UK fast approaching, premium tyre manufacturer Pirelli is supplying its employees with an informative leaflet with their company payslips in order to keep staff up to speed with the annual initiative.

Testing of Pirelli’s state-of-the-art Cyber Fleet system has doubled up so that a new programme of tests in Germany, where more than a million kilometres have been monitored in barely two months, joins the existing South American schedule.

The closing round of the Pirelli-supported MSA British Rally Championship, International Rally Yorkshire, will take place in Scarborough later this week where Keith Cronin aims to clinch his third international rally title (28-29 September).

The Pirelli P Zero has won Evo magazine’s annual tyre test, after going up against all of its key rivals in a series of challenges.

Pirelli is running a competition through its social media sites offering individuals the chance to win 40 pairs of tickets to the annual Ferrari Racing Days event that encompasses rounds of both the European Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli series and the Pirelli Ferrari Open.

Pirelli will support Ferrari North Europe at Silverstone next weekend as part of its annual Ferrari Racing Days event that will also feature rounds of the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli and the Pirelli Ferrari Open (14-16 September).

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.

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.

Irishman Keith Cronin stormed to his third consecutive victory following a dominant win on last weekend’s International Rally Northern Ireland, round five of the Pirelli-backed British Rally Championship.