Pirelli-backed Porsche Club Championship gets top TV package

The Porsche Club Championship is exclusively supplied by Italian tyre firm Pirelli this year, with viewers all over Britain and Ireland able to take in the action thanks to a new television deal that will showcase the cars and the tyres to an even wider audience.

Motors TV, a European TV channel dedicated to motorsport, will broadcast all seven rounds of the Porsche Club Championship, underlining its status as one of the premier club series in the UK. The races will be shown on Wednesday afternoons, will full coverage of the series, which has just had its second round at Croft in Yorkshire.

The Porsche Club Championship is organised by Porsche Club GB: the largest officially recognised Porsche Club in Europe. The Porsche Club Championship includes a number of different classes, designed to open up the competition to as many different models of Porsche as possible.

What the cars all have in common are Pirelli’s race-bred tyres. The Italian firm will supply its renowned DH slick tyres, available in a variety of sizes, for dry conditions as well as the WH treaded tyre for wet conditions: as was the case at Croft.

Porsche Club Championship co-ordinator Steve Kevlin commented: “The Pirelli tyres have been very quick and consistent, with the wet-weather tyres coming into their own in the tricky conditions of Croft. It’s great to have Pirelli back on board providing tyres and support for the club’s championship.”

Pirelli and Porsche have a tradition of success, with P Zero tyres supplied as original equipment to many of Porsche’s latest models, including the iconic 911 – which uses a different compound on the front and the rear to complement the car’s renowned handling characteristics.

Porsche’s latest model, the Macan SUV, also uses Pirelli tyres as original equipment, which are made at Pirelli’s UK facility in Carlisle.