Posts Tagged ‘Bridgestone Corporation’
All change for 2010
The return of Michael Schumacher, no more refuelling, new teams and a new width Bridgestone front tyre are all important factors for what is already one of the most talked about Formula One seasons for decades.
Bridgestone enters the 2010 season with the knowledge that this is the final year of the contract for Official Tyre [...]
Bridgestone Bahrain GP Preview
Bridgestone enters the final season of its contract as Official Tyre Supplier to the FIA Formula One World Championship with the commencement of the Bahrain Grand Prix on March 14 with Bridgestone’s super soft and medium 2010 specification dry slick tyres.
Changes for this year include a narrower front tyre, to give a more even grip [...]
Q+A with Hirohide Hamashima
Bridgestone Motorsport concluded the final pre-season test before the start of the 2010 Formula One season at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona where all four compounds of Bridgestone’s dry tyre range were used over four days on February 25-28.
As a contrast to the previous two tests in Jerez, there was predominantly dry weather over the [...]
Bridgestone Launches Potenza S001 Road Tyre
Innovative design and launch for Bridgestone’s new Potenza S001 UHP sport tyre
Reliving the motorsport heritage of Potenza tyres, Bridgestone has designed the new S001 to give the worlds most powerful sports cars exhilarating control and quick-fire response. Continuing the innovation, a catchy viral web campaign kicks off the launch and gives one lucky winner the [...]
Q+A with Jun Matsuzaki
Bridgestone Motorsport concluded two pre-season tests at the Circuito de Jerez last Saturday, where extensive use was made of Bridgestone’s wet and intermediate tyres for the majority of eight days’ testing at the track in southern Spain, on February 10-13 and 17-20.
The final two days provided extensive dry running, but prior to that uncharacteristic and [...]
Forty Years Of Motorsport
Bridgestone has been at the fore-front of innovation and development in motor sport since making its racing debut at the first Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka in 1963. Motor sport is now a crucial arena for expressing Bridgestone’s corporate identity on a global level. The tyres supplied by Bridgestone for that first race were ordinary [...]
