DUNLOP Eco-friendly Polo on Dunlops -> Page 2 NEWSLETTER Enormous logistic effort -> Page 2 4th June Dunlop and Schubert-BMW aim for top result in the Nürburgring 24h Race • Prominent driver line-up with Stuck / Stuck / Hürtgen / Göransson 2007 • Successful development work already resulted in several podium finishes

clinch a podium finish. Should both drivers and team succeed in delivering a zero- mistake race, we could make it to the very top.”

Dunlop tires crucial for the performance There is a reason why the drivers and their Team Principal believe to have an advantage, particularly in difficult weather conditions: the race tires designed for the BMW Z4 M Coupe in cooperation with Dunlop work fine in normal weather conditi- ons and are close to perfect when it comes to racing on a wet track. Team Principal Torsten Schubert describes the partners’ Schubert-BMW relies on Dunlo main focuses during the development: “In In this year’s ADAC Zurich 24h Race, battle it out at the very front of the field in the Eifel region, you may have to cope with Schubert Motors will attract a lot of attention, the 24h race. rather cool conditions even in spring and with a spectacular appearance. When it summer. Therefore, tires for a race held on comes to the longest race held on the pla- Stuck: “Z4 can make it to the podium” the Nordschleife must be able to provide a net’s longest circuit, the BMW experts based The driver combination comprising old good grip level even at low temperatures. in the Magdeburger Börde region are going hand Hans-Joachim ‘Striezel’ Stuck and his Furthermore, endurance racing is extremely to enter a 420bhp BMW Z4 M Coupe, with younger team-mates is optimistic when it demanding for the tires. Other than in a four drivers alternating at the wheel of the comes to the season highlight of German sprint race, we complete some ten to eleven beautiful endurance coupe: German motor endurance racing. “There are ten cars that laps, here, before coming in for a fresh set racing legend Hans-Joachim Stuck, overall have got what it needs to secure the overall of tyres. In other words: the tire has to deli- winner in the years 1970, 1998 and 2004, is win,” explains Stuck Sr. “Performance-wise, ver on the highest level for some 250 to 300 going to contest the 24h race for the first our BMW Z4 certainly is good enough to kilometres.” Claudia Hürtgen also confirms time together with his son Johannes. The that the result of the development work – Stucks will share the cockpit with Claudia Facts and Figures used in the dimensions 265/660 R18 (front) Hürtgen (2005 VLN Champion and 2004 The Nürburgring 24-Hour Race is regarded as the and 270/710 R18 (rear) – perfectly suits the Production Car Champion) and multi-time biggest motor-racing event of the world. Here we Nürburgring Nordschleife. “Over the Swedish Touring Car Champion Richard have compiled some figures demonstrating the distance, the tires are just perfect,” the nati- Göransson. Dunlop accompanied the alrea- dimensions of the rich in tradition race at the ve Aachener stresses. “In the first VLN dy successful project right from the start: in Nordschleife. rounds we realised that the tires have got Spectators: 198,000 (2006) the current Endurance Championship the potential to still deliver on the highest Handed in entries: 260 Nürburgring (VLN) season, the Z4 finished Teams admitted for practice: 230 level after having completed eleven gruelling third in three of the five races and secured Teams admitted for race: 220 Nordschleife laps, thus offering us the chan- one fourth place. Now, the BMW squad Drivers: about 700 ce of setting lap times nearly equalising our and its exclusive tire partner are Competitors support races: about 900 fastest ones.” Obviously, the Dunlop tires confident to also be Contributors organisation: about 2,000 are consistent, fast and reliable – the perfect able to Track length: 25.378km combination for a top result.

MOTORSPORT DUNLOP MOTORSPORT Eco-friendly Polo on Dunlops NEWSLETTER Enormous logistic effort executed by Dunlop 4th June Double operation: Dunlop Racing Service involved in DTM and 24h race • Dunlop Team supplies the ‘Black Gold’ for Brands Hatch and the Nürburgring 2007 • Well-rehearsed squad of engineers and service technicians

Eco-friendly on Dunlops Dunlop in DTM and Nürburgring 24h Race: When the ADAC Zurich 24h Race held at Sought-after tire partner for sprint and endurance racing the Nürburgring will be started on 9th June, Simultaneously with the 24h marathon in as the support programme at the Nürburg- one of the smallest vehicles on the 220-car the Eifel region, DTM, the most popular ring begins as early as on Thursday, they grid is going to dare one of the arguably big- European touring car series, is going to hold have to be ready accordingly early: the tires gest experiments: Christian Göhrke its fourth round at Brands Hatch, UK. And at used for the Challenge and the Circuit (Leiferde), Harald Frings (Starnberg) and both venues, Andreas Leue (Schöneiche) will contest the the Dunlop tire event with a natural-gas fuelled VW Polo experts repre- GTI. In the endurance classic t the sent sought- Nürburgring, the team will have to battle it out in an extremely competitive category as after partners the class ‘Alternatively Fuelled Vehicles’ has who will have to extremely prospered since this first overall cope with a win of a diesel car, back in 1998. Currently, truly outstan- this class represents about 15 percent of the ding motor- entire grid. After all, horsepower isn’t the racing week. only vital factor when it comes to 24h racing. Altogether, And to make sure that everything works fine some 40 Dunlop in the tire area, the team has opted for a tire employees will partner about a third of the field is relying be involved, on: at ‘VW individual’, Team Principal and bringing along a total of 6,000 tires to the Challenge will be fitted from Wednesday, driver Christian Göhrke is responsible for the respective venues. while the assembly lines carried along extra development of all the natural-gas models for this event will be used from Thursday for and now he is going to test the endurance- racing qualities of the own products, here, The about 1,200 tires and the necessary the fitting of the tires for the 24-hour race with a hobby operation. For the 24h race, material that will be needed for the DTM and the ADAC Procar. the team enhanced a production Polo GTI round at Brands Hatch will be transported that should deliver more than 150bhp, follo- with three semi-trailers: this advance party of Multi-week planning for just one weekend wing a chip-tuning measure and the equip- the about 20 Racing Service members is The Racing Service’s hot planning phase ment with the natural-gas system. Apart from going to hit the road to the British Island as for this mega race weekend started some these modifications, the gas racer still repre- early as on Tuesday. The Wednesday is three to four weeks prior to the events. After sents production standard. designated – as usual – for the erection of all, there were a lot of details to be conside- the equipment before the work with the DTM red: from the tire demand planning through teams will begin on Thursday. The clearly the transportation capacities to the ordering bigger operating expense in the material of tickets and parking vouchers. And as area, however, will be executed by the early as ten days prior to the start of the Nürburgring crew. With eleven 40-ton trucks race, the Dunlop engineers began fulfilling and two 7.5-ton lorries, they will transport special requests: intermediates for several 5,000 racing tires to the Eifel circuit: with vehicle types were cut manually to be able 4,000 slicks and 1,000 wets, they are well to meet the demands of the Dunlop teams prepared for every imaginable situation. And even in changeable conditions.

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