Dunlop Stars Shine at Goodwood
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IN TOUCH MOTORSPORT NEWS TWO WHEELS FOUR WHEELS europeaN superbike VLN NurburgriNg European Superbike series Dunlop and Audi back to their round-up winning ways with success at the Nurburgring > page 5 > page 2 DUNLOP STARS SHINE AT GOODWOOD ISSUE FIVe – JULy ‘09 F2ou WHEELR WH NEWSEEL NEWS LeVLN MANS NurburgriNg AUDI R8 LMS SCorES FIrsT VLN WIN WITH DunloP AT NurBurGRING > First outing of Team phoenix audi on Dunlop results in race win > Dunlop and audi return to their winning ways after first joint race win and championship in 1986 unlop celebrated a new phase and we had three different types Din its relationship with German of tyres from compound and manufacturer Audi as the Team construction. Biela had one, I had Phoenix Audi R8 LMS, having one and Basseng had one. I think switched to Dunlop tyres for the mine was the best for performance first time, scored Audi’s first ever and speed because I did my fastest win in the fifth round of the 2009 lap on the last lap of my stint. VLN series which is held exclusively This was the baseline tyre for the at the Nurburgring. Nurburgring last weekend, another Hans Stuck, Frank Biela and fantastic result for us coming 2nd Marc Basseng brought an end overall.” to Porsche’s nine-race winning It was the first time that Audi production sisters also are shod preceded Biela as DTM Champion streak when they started from had won in the championship, with Dunlops.” in 1990. second place on the grid for the which has been organised since The win was the latest in a long In 1994, Emanuele Pirro won the fifth round in June. They enjoyed 1977, and Audi Motorsport Director line of successes between Audi and Italian Touring Car Championship a comfortable 50-second lead Wolfgang Ullrich was delighted. Dunlop which stretch back to 1986, with Dunlop, but the 1996 season when a thunderstorm brought a “This appearance was just the when Xavier Lapeyre won in the was Audi’s crowning year. Audi premature end to the race. first effort with Dunlop – and what French Touring Car ChampionshVip and Dunlop formed championship “We needed those 50 seconds could be a better start for a new behind the wheel of an Audi 200 winning partnerships in Australia because we needed a quick pit cooperation than a joint race Quattro. Lapeyre scored his first (Brad Jones), Belgium (Jean- stop for petrol only,” said Stuck, win?” Frank Hohmann, Director, win in April at the French track Francois Hemroulle), Czech who celebrates his 40th year in Marketing & Strategic Development of Ledenon, and went on to take Republic (Josef Venc), Germany motor sport just as, on July 16th, Goodyear Dunlop Tyres Germany the title that year. Audi switched (Pirro), Britain (Biela), Italy (Rinaldo Audi celebrated its 100th year as a GMBH, added: “This success we to the Audi 80 Quattro in 1988, Capello) and in Spain (Jordi Gene). manufacturer. “I had a battle with achieved in cooperation with Audi and Lapeyre won the title again That year, Greg Murphy also won the Porsche factory driver Dirk on the most gruelling circuit of the in 1991. Team mate Marc Sourd one of two international races at Werner in the Mammorow car, and world represents a confirmation was champion in 1992, while Biela Surfer’s Paradise with the Audi 80 I had to pass him and create a gap for our long-term strategy. Dunlop came from a championship-winning Quattro, and Biela won at Macau in for a safe pit stop. The rain came at provides tyres for particularly year in the multi-brand DTM series the Audi A4, all on Dunlop tyres. the right time, but we would have dynamic vehicles and particularly with Audi’s V8 Quattro on Dunlop Since then, Dunlop has become won anyway and we proved that at ambitious drivers – both on the tyres, and made his debut in the a name synonymous with touring the six hour race as well.” racetrack and on public roads. The French series in 1993. He won a car racing, supplying control “The basic tyre was the same Audi R8 is a truly striking example third successive title for Audi and tyres to the British Touring Car as they used on the Lamborghini for this technology transfer as its Dunlop after scoring five wins, three Championship, the Deutsche pole positions and seven fastest Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM), laps and is still the only non-French Australian V8 Supercar series and driver to have taken the title. several European Mini-Challenge The Audi Dunlop relationship was series. Dunlop’s relationship firmly established by then. Jean- with Audi in touring cars is Michel Martin had won the Belgian on-going through the DTM and Touring Car Championship with an Audi’s customer racing activities Audi 200 turbo Quattro on Dunlop concentrate on the R8 LMS, which tyres in 1989, while Hans Stuck continues the winning tradition. > page 2 WWW.DunloP-TIRES.COM F2ou WHEELR WH NEWSEEL NEWS Legoo MANSDwooD DunloP CELEBRATES THE FESTIval of SPEED WITH olD frIENDS AT GooDWooD > porsche 917 celebrates its 40th anniversary > Le Mans legend Johnny Herbert gets to grips with Honda’s british Touring Car he Goodwood Festival of house, Dunlop welcomed a host TSpeed, the brainchild of the of famous faces over the course of theJaguar festival, XJ hisr -9first – 1988ever runLe Min aaN s wiNNer Earl of March, has been celebrating the weekend, including legendary For the ‘88 24 Hours of Le Mans the two regular drivers Jan Lammers and the history of motorsport and car driver Stirling Moss, celebrating his Johnny Dumfries were joined by Andy Wallace. The ‘Silk Cut’ Jaguar had culture at Goodwood House since 80th birthday, and others including a naturally aspirated 7-litre V12 engine developing 750 hp. With a gearbox 1993. The unique event brings Johnny Herbert and John Rhodes. on the verge of destruction, Lammers nursed XJR-9 home during the final together exotic racing machinery Stirling Moss’s relationship with stages of the tace to take Jaguar’s first win at Le Mans since 1957. from all levels and types of racing Dunlop goes back over half a and is attended by stars of the track century and features many key British Touring Car. “It’s great to be tyres. The car itself, dubbed the both past and present. moments for both. Despite his back at Goodwood, and it never ‘Dunlop car’ was sporting a livery Dunlop is as synonymous with years he was still quick to get ceases to amaze me how much designed by winner Christian Baur motor racing as Goodwood itself behind the wheel, giving the crowd the event just grows and grows in a Europe-wide competition prior so it was only fitting that the main a great display in both the classic year upon year,” Herbert said. “It to the 2009 Le Mans race. media stage at this year’s Festival Mercedes-Benz W196 and the has an added ‘extra’ for me this Stirling Moss wasn’t the only of Speed was again hosted by the stunning all-new McLaren Mercedes year because, for the first time in one celebrating a birthday, the performance tyre manufacturer. SLR. All the interviews from the my racing career, I will be driving a Porsche 917, immortalized by Steve Dunlop added to the annual main stage were broadcast live British Touring Car.” Herbet has a McQueen in the Le Mans film, was celebration of high octane thrills exclusively on the Dunlop website unique place in Dunlop’s Le Mans also celebrating its 40th anniversary. and excitement by bringing both for those unable to attend the event. history, winning the 1991race in the Dunlop and Porsche took the iconic racing drivers and machines Legendary British Le Mans Mazdaspeed rotary Mazda 787B, opportunity to celebrate the car that together for the public to admire driver Johnny Herbert was also a the only time a Japanese car has brought Porsche its first overall wins and interact with. guest at the Dunlop hosted stage. won there in the history of the race. at Le Mans in 1970 and 1971. Based on the main stage in the Herbert was driving the Team Herbert drove the car to what was Over the weekend Dunlop played Stable Yard section of Goodwood Dynamics BTCC Honda Civic at Dunlop’s 34th Le Mans victory with host to many more well-loved racers co-drivers Bernard Gachot and and racing machines including Volkert Wiedler. Derek Bell, Jackie Stewart, Eddie The drivers were not the only Irvine and Damon Hill. Sparkling stars hosted by Dunlop over the quietly in the sunshine around them weekend, gracing the Dunlop were a host of Dunlop shod exotica stand this year were a number of including Frank Biela’s BTCC Audi, incredible machines who’s iconic Bentley’s Le Mans storming EXP status have earned them a place in Speed 8 and some of the latest motoring history. Two very special ground breaking sports cars relying Jaguars were present, the first, on Dunlop Sport Maxx tyres to keep the XJR-9 was driven to victory by them on the road, including the Jan Lammers, Johnny Dumfries Nissan GTR – Black, the Mercedes and Andy Wallace in the 1988 Le Benz AMG SL65 Black Series and Mans 24HR. Accompanying this the Audi R8 V10. was the brand new Jaguar XFR, During the three day event over a prototype of which became the 45,000 racing fans came onto fastest ever Jaguar car when it the Dunlop stage to hear over 40 hit 225.675mph on the legendary celebrity guests share their motoring Bonneville salt Flats last year.