It was last September when Bridgestone first introduced its exciting project to use the latest technology to produce new tyres for the legendary Jaguar XJ220. This new tyre development has been craved by the owners of these classic cars for some years.<\/p>\n
Four months, 17 specs and hundreds of laps later, the prototypes have been produced, evaluated, and tested, and the final tyre has now received a huge vote of approval not just from the Bridgestone engineers, but from Justin Law; and no-one has driven the XJ220 further than Justin.
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\nThanks to his active participation in this project, it was possible to ensure that the new tyre out-handles and out-performs the original tyres that were fitted to the car.
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\nJustin said: \u201cIt\u2019s not just about knowing tyres, this is about knowing everything about the car and how it is supposed to handle. I\u2019m one of the very few people that have been lucky enough to drive this car regularly during the last 23 years, and I\u2019ve covered more than 100 000 miles.
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\n\u201cBut don\u2019t just take my word for it\u201d he continued, \u201cwith Bridgestone we brought the engineers and test drivers from 25 years ago back together, so we were pretty much guaranteed to do the job right.\u201d
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\n\u201cA project this exciting though doesn\u2019t deserve to be secret\u201d added Christophe De Valroger, Vice President Consumer OE at Bridgestone Europe \u201ccar lovers everywhere acknowledge the appeal of the Jaguar XJ220 and its history, and for that reason we decided to tell the whole story in film.\u201d
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\nThis Friday, March 24th at 11:00 CET join Justin, Don and the Bridgestone development team alongside Andy Wallace, John Nielsen, Alastair Macqueen and Shinichi Watanabe together with Don\u2019s original pre-production car, chassis no. 004 and relive the experience.
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\nThe Jaguar XJ220 is finally rebooted, the legend lives on.
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\nGet a taste of what\u2019s to come here: https:\/\/youtu.be\/YqCvls0oXjY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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