AUSTIN AMERICAS 13 APRIL 2014 02 www.bridgestonemotorsport.com BRIDGESTONE TYRES TAME THE TURNS IN TEXAS

After a successful debut event makes the circuit a real challenge for the rear. With front-end feel important through last year, MotoGP™ returns to riders and tyres. the faster sections of the track, the front the Circuit of The Americas in Overall, the layout of the COTA places slick options for this circuit – the soft and Austin, Texas with legions of similar loads on both shoulders of the medium compounds – are selected for the American fans set to be thrilled tyres, yet the presence of several high best combination of grip and stability. after an intense season opener speed right-hand corners means that at Qatar. asymmetric rear slicks with slightly harder ELEVATION CHANGES The Circuit of the Americas packs every rubber on the right shoulders are offered AND THE COMBINATION type of corner into its 5.515 kilometres, for this circuit. Open class and Ducati OF SLOW AND FAST making it one of the more technical riders will be offered the soft and medium CORNERS MAKES COTA venues on the calendar. Elevation changes, compound asymmetric rear slicks, while A REAL CHALLENGE the longest straight in MotoGP, and a the Factory and Yamaha riders can FOR THE RIDERS combination of slow and fast corners utilise the medium and hard compound AND TYRES

CIRCUIT KEY 11 S2 GRAND PRIX 01 : CORNER NUMBER TIME S : SPEED TRAP

INFORMATION S1 : SECTOR 1 SCHEDULE SHOWING RACE LOCAL TIME (GMT -5) S2 : SECTOR 2 S CIRCUIT 08 10 S3 : SECTOR 3 FRIDAY - 11 APRIL First race 2013 12 09 Moto3 FP1 09:00 - 09:40 No. of GPs held 1 15 06 07 MotoGP FP1 09:55 - 10:40 Laps 13 S1 Moto2 FP1 10:55 - 11:40 21 (MotoGP) 19 (Moto2) 18 (Moto3) S3 14 05 19 04 Moto3 FP2 13:10 - 13:50 Track length 16 MotoGP FP2 14:05 - 14:50 5.513km / 3.426 miles (Width 15m) 03 18 17 20 Moto2 FP2 15:05 - 15:50 Race distance 115.773km / 71.938 miles (21 Laps) 02 Longest straight SATURDAY - 12 APRIL 1,200m / 0.746 miles Moto3 FP3 09:00 - 09:40 Corners MotoGP FP3 09:55 - 10:40 20 (11 left, 9 right) 01 Moto2 FP3 10:55 - 11:40 Moto3 QP 12:35 - 13:15 MotoGP FP4 13:30 - 14:00 RECORDS SLICK TYRE MotoGP Q1 14:10 - 14:25 COMPOUNDS TYRE SEVERITY MotoGP Q2 14:35 - 14:50 2m 03.021s (161.3Km/h) EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD RATING EXTRASOFT SOFT MEDIUM HARD Moto2 QP 15:05 - 15:50 Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) SOFT C C L R L R 2m 04.242s (159.7Km/h) SUNDAY - 13 APRIL AUSTIN - FRONT SLICKS Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) Moto3 WUP 08:40 - 09:00 EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD Race time SOFT Moto2 WUP 09:10 - 09:30 43m 42.123s (158.9Km/h) FRONT REAR MotoGP WUP 09:40 - 10:00 Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013) Moto3 RACE 11:00 2013 Winner AUSTIN - REAR SLICKS Moto2 RACE 12:20 Marc Marquez (Honda) EXTRA SOFT MEDIUM HARD MotoGP RACE 14:00 SOFT < MILD SEVERE >

SECTION OF TYRE : SOURCE : www.motogp.com L : LEFT / C : CENTRE / R : RIGHT INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE

TYRE TALK WITH This year will be our second visit to Austin’s open sections. These features combine corners. The fast right-hand corners are Circuit of the Americas and the impressive to place a great importance on front-end quite severe on tyres, so at this circuit we SHINJI layout of this track presents quite a feel, as maintaining good corner speed is provide asymmetric rear slicks with slightly AOKI challenge for tyre development. COTA important here. Therefore our front tyres harder rubber on the right shoulder. is run in a counter-clockwise direction need to provide good grip characteristics Manager, Bridgestone and the track is technical with a mix of with plenty of stability. The rear tyres must Motorsport Tyre Development Division tight, slower corners and faster, more also provide good drive out of the slower TEAMS & RIDERS *MOST RECENT PERFORMANCE LISTED

REPSOL HONDA TEAM MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP GO & FUN HONDA GRESINI HONDA RC213V YAMAHA YZR-M1 HONDA RC213V / RCV1000R MARC MARQUEZ #93 #99 ALVARO BAUTISTA #19 DOB: 17/2/1993 Wins: 7 DOB: 4/5/1987 Wins: 31 DOB: 21/11/1984 Wins: 0 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 10 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 29 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 1 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 11 GP Debut: QAT08 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 18 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 1 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 17 GP Starts: 103 (MotoGP) Podiums: 74 GP Starts: 69 (MotoGP) Podiums: 2 Best Championship Pos: 1st (2013) Points: 359 Best Championship Pos: 1st (x2, 2012*) Points: 1774 Best Championship Pos: 5th (2012) Points: 501

DANI PEDROSA #26 #46 SCOTT REDDING #45 DOB: 29/9/1985 Wins: 25 DOB: 16/2/1979 Wins: 80 DOB: 4/1/1993 Wins: 0 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 26 Nationality: Italian Poles: 49 Nationality: British Poles: 0 GP Debut: SPA06 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 39 GP Debut: RSA00 (500cc) Fastest laps: 68 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 133 (MotoGP) Podiums: 85 GP Starts: 235 (MotoGP/500cc) Podiums: 148 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Best Championship Pos: 2nd (2012*) Points: 2052 Best Championship Pos: 1st (x7, 2009*) Points: 3843 Best Championship Pos: NA Points: 9

DRIVE M7 ASPAR DUCATI TEAM MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3 HONDA RCV1000R DUCATI DESMOSEDICI YAMAHA YZR-M1 #69 ANDREA DOVIZIOSO #4 BRADLEY SMITH #38 DOB: 30/7/1981 Wins: 3 DOB: 23/3/1986 Wins: 1 DOB: 28/11/1990 Wins: 0 Nationality: American Poles: 5 Nationality: Italian Poles: 1 Nationality: British Poles: 0 GP Debut: JPN03 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 7 GP Debut: QAT08 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 2 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 186 (MotoGP) Podiums: 28 GP Starts: 107 (MotoGP) Podiums: 22 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 1st (x1, 2006) Points: 1629 Best championship pos: 3rd (2011) Points: 1137 Best Championship Pos: 10th (2013) Points: 116

HIROSHI AOYAMA #7 CAL CRUTCHLOW #35 POL ESPARGARO #44 DOB: 25/10/1981 Wins: 0 DOB: 29/10/1985 Wins: 0 DOB: 4/1/1993 Wins: 0 Nationality: Japanese Poles: 0 Nationality: British Poles: 2 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT11 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 1 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 47 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 53 (MotoGP) Podiums: 6 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 10th (2011) Points: 172 Best championship pos: 5th (2013) Points: 419 Best Championship Pos: NA Points: 0

CARDION AB MOTORACING LCR HONDA MOTOGP IODARACING PROJECT HONDA RCV1000R HONDA RC213V ART KAREL ABRAHAM #17 #6 #9 DOB: 02/01/1990 Wins: 0 DOB: 29/11/1989 Wins: 0 DOB: 24/10/1990 Wins: 0 Nationality: Czech Poles: 0 Nationality: German Poles: 1 Nationality: Italian Poles: 0 GP Debut: QAT11 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Starts: 40 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 35 (MotoGP) Podiums: 1 GP Starts: 36 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Best championship pos: 14th (2012*) Points: 131 Best championship pos: 7th (2013) Points: 291 Best championship pos: 17th (2013) Points: 55

NGM MOBILE PRAMAC RACING FORWARD YAMAHA DUCATI DESMOSEDICI RESULTS ON COLIN EDWARDS #5 ANDREA IANNONE #29 BRIDGESTONE TYRES

DOB: 27/2/1974 Wins: 0 DOB: 9/8/1989 Wins: 0 RIDER TITLES WIN 2ND 3RD PODIUM POLE Nationality: American Poles: 3 Nationality: Italian Poles: 0 GP Debut: JPN03 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 3 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 2 38 10 20 68 38 GP Starts: 187 (MotoGP) Podiums: 12 GP Starts: 17 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Jorge Lorenzo 2 30 27 11 68 24 Best championship pos: 4th (2005) Points: 1238 Best championship pos: 12th (2013) Points: 63 Valentino Rossi 2 18 16 15 49 10 - 19 25 17 61 16 ALEIX ESPARGARO #41 YONNY HERNANDEZ #68 Marc Marquez 1 7 6 4 17 10 - 6 7 4 17 5 DOB: 30/7/1989 Wins: 0 DOB: 25/7/1988 Wins: 0 Makoto Tamada - 2 1 1 4 3 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 Nationality: Columbian Poles: 0 Andrea Dovizioso - 1 7 14 22 1 GP Debut: INP09 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT12 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Chris Vermeulen - 1 3 3 7 3 GP Starts: 59 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 34 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Ben Spies - 1 2 3 6 1 Best championship pos: 11th (2013) Points: 261 Best championship pos: 17th (2012) Points: 53 Troy Bayliss - 1 - - 1 - - - 3 1 4 - Cal Crutchlow - - 2 4 6 2 Toni Elias - - 2 3 5 - John Hopkins - - 1 3 4 1 AVINTIA RACING PAUL BIRD MOTORSPORT - - 1 1 2 2 AVINTIA PBM Colin Edwards - - 1 1 2 - Shinya Nakano - - 1 1 2 - HECTOR BARBERA #8 MICHAEL LAVERTY #70 Randy de Puniet - - 1 1 2 - DOB: 2/11/1986 Wins: 0 DOB: 7/6/1981 Wins: 0 Stefan Bradl - - 1 - 1 1 Nationality: Spanish Poles: 0 Nationality: British Poles: 0 Kenny Roberts Jr - - 1 - 1 1 GP Debut: QAT10 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT13 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 - - 1 - 1 - GP Starts: 68 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 19 (MotoGP) Podiums: 0 Katsuyuki Nakasuga - - 1 - 1 - Best championship pos: 11th (2011) Points: 290 Best championship pos: 25th (2013) Points: 3 Oliver Jacque - - 1 - 1 - Nicky Hayden - - - 3 3 - Alvaro Bautista - - - 2 2 1 MIKE DE MEGLIO #63 #23 Carlos Checa - - - 2 2 - DOB: 17/1/1988 Wins: 0 DOB: 4/8/1986 Wins: 0 Alex Barros - - - 1 1 - Nationality: French Poles: 0 Nationality: Australian Poles: 0 Jeremy McWilliams - - - - - 1 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 GP Debut: QAT14 (MotoGP) Fastest laps: 0 Sete Gibernau - - - - - 1 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 GP Starts: 1 Podiums: 0 Championship pos: NA Points: 0 Best championship pos: NA Points: 1 TOTAL 7 124 121 114 359 121 A record of every pole position, win, podium and World Championship achieved on Bridgestone tyres since the manufacturer’s MotoGP debut in 2002 MotoGP the manufacturer’s since tyres on Bridgestone Championship achieved position, win, podium and World pole of every A record CALENDAR & RIDERS CHAMPIONSHIP

COUNTRY QAT USA ARG ESP FRA ITA CAT NED GER IND CZE GBR RSM ARA JPN AUS MAL VAL Losail Austin Rio Hondo Jerez Le Mans Mugello Catalunya Assen Sachsenring Indianapolis Brno Silverstone Misano Aragon Motegi Phillip Island Sepang Valencia AVAILABLE Extra-Soft Hard TYRE Soft Wet-Soft COMPOUNDS Medium Wet-Hard 23/03/14 13/04/14 27/04/14 04/05/14 18/05/14 01/06/14 15/06/14 28/06/14 13/07/14 10/08/14 17/08/14 31/08/14 14/09/14 28/09/14 12/10/14 19/10/14 26/10/14 09/11/14

Soft Soft ALLOCATED-FRONT TYRES Hard Medium Soft Soft Medium Medium ALLOCATED-REAR TYRES Hard Hard AIR 20º WEATHER CONDITIONS TRACK 18º RACE TRACK CONDITIONS DRY WINS & POSITION - RIDER PODIUMS 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 W 1 25 1 1 Marc Marquez #93 F PD 1 R 1 W - 2010 2 Valention Rossi #46 F PD 1 R 2 W - 16 6 3 Dani Pedrosa #26 F PD 1 R 3 W - 13 9 4 Aleix Espargaro #41 F PD - R 4 W - 11 4 5 Andrea Dovizioso #4 F PD - R 5 W - 10 8 6 Cal Crutchlow #35 F PD - R 6 W - 916 7 Scott Redding #45 F PD - R 7 W - 813 8 Nicky Hayden #69 F PD - R 8 W - 714 9 Colin Edwards #5 F PD - R 9 W - 611 10 Andrea Iannone #29 F PD - R 10 W - 515 11 Hiroshi Aoyama #7 F PD - R 11 W - 417 12 Yonny Hernandez #68 F PD - R 12 W - 318 13 Karel Abraham #17 F PD - R 13 W - 220 14 Danilo Petrucci #9 F PD - R 14 W - 121 15 Broc Parkes #23 F PD - R 15 W - -23 16 Michael Laverty #70 F PD - R 16 W - -22 17 Mike Di Meglio #63 F PD - R 17 W - AC - 2 18 Alvaro Bautista #19 F PD - R - W - AC - 3 19 Bradley Smith #38 F PD - R - W - RT -12 20 Pol Espargaro #44 F PD - R - W - AC - 7 21 Stefan Bradl #6 F PD - R - W - RT -19 22 Hector Barbera #8 F PD - R - W - AC - 5 23 Jorge Lorenzo #99 F PD - R -

A C RACE F B A : Reason retired B : Final race position C : Grid position D : Championship points F : Front tyre choice at start R : Rear tyre choice at start : Tyre changes AC : Accident DQ : Disqualified RT : Retired DNS : Did not start KEY R D CONSTRUCTOR & TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP CONSTRUCTORS 1 Honda : 25 2 Yamaha : 20 3 Forward Yamaha : 13 4 Ducati : 11 5 ART : 2 6 PBM : 1 7 Avintia : 0

TEAMS SOURCE : www.motogp.com 1 Team : 41 4 NGM Mobile Forward Racing : 20 7 GO&FUN Honda Gresini : 9 10 Paul Bird Motorsport : 1 13 Avintia Racing : 0 2 Ducati Team : 21 5 Drive M7 Aspar : 13 8 Cardion AB Motoracing : 3 11 Monster Yamaha Tech 3 : 0 3 Movistar Yamaha MotoGP : 20 6 Pramac Racing Team : 10 9 IodaRacing Project : 2 12 LCR Honda MotoGP : 0 A record of every pole position, win, podium and World Championship achieved on Bridgestone tyres since the manufacturer’s MotoGP debut in 2002 MotoGP the manufacturer’s since tyres on Bridgestone Championship achieved position, win, podium and World pole of every A record VALENTINO ROSSI STARS IN NEW BRIDGESTONE FEATURE

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Valentino Rossi stars in a new film celebrating the launch of Club46, a new promotional campaign in collaboration with Bridgestone Europe. The film showcases how both Bridgestone and Valentino Rossi ‘share’ a winning DNA, starting out from humble beginnings before going on to become leaders in the world of motorsport. In this feature, Valentino interacts with his younger self, while at the same time archived footage highlights Bridgestone’s rise from a small company, to the world’s leading tyre and rubber manufacturer, culminating in the honour of becoming the Official Tyre Supplier to MotoGP™

The film can be viewed at : http://youtu.be/maLctuM9ECA

2013 QUALIFYING & RACE RESULTS 2013 QUALIFYING TIMES - Q2 2013 RACE RESULTS RIDER TEAM TOP KM/H TIME GAP RIDER TEAM TIME TOP KM/H GAP 1 Marc Marquez Repsol Honda Team 341.6 2’03.021s 1 Marc Marquez Repsol Honda Team 43’42.123s 158.9 2 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team 339.1 2’03.275s 0.254s 2 Dani Pedrosa Repsol Honda Team 43’43.657s 158.8 1.534s 3 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing 335.0 2’04.100s 1.079s 3 Jorge Lorenzo Yamaha Factory Racing 43’45.504s 158.7 3.381s 4 Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 332.4 2’04.267s 1.246s 4 Cal Crutchlow Monster Yamaha Tech 3 43’48.739s 158.5 6.616s 5 Stefan Bradl LCR Honda MotoGP 336.8 2’04.445s 1.424s 5 Stefan Bradl LCR Honda MotoGP 43’54.797s 158.1 12.674s 6 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Team 336.5 2’04.873s 1.852s 6 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Factory Racing 43’58.738s 157.9 16.615s 7 Alvaro Bautista GO&FUN Honda Gresini 335.7 2’04.942s 1.921s 7 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Team 44’04.497s 157.6 22.374s 8 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Factory Racing 335.2 2’05.380s 2.359s 8 Alvaro Bautista GO&FUN Honda Gresini 44’04.977s 157.5 22.854s 9 Aleix Espargaro* Power Electronics Aspar 320.1 2’05.389s 2.368s 9 Nicky Hayden Ducati Team 44’15.896s 156.9 33.773s 10 Nicky Hayden Ducati Team 336.5 2’05.568s 2.547s 10 Andrea Iannone Energy T.I. Pramac Racing 44’24.235s 156.4 42.112s 11 Bradley Smith* Monster Yamaha Tech 3 334.1 2’06.740s 3.719s 11 Aleix Espargaro Power Electronics Aspar 44’30.960s 156.0 48.837s 12 Ben Spies Ignite Pramac Racing 333.8 2’07.044s 4.023s 12 Bradley Smith Monster Yamaha Tech 3 44’32.828s 155.9 50.705s 13 Ben Spies Ignite Pramac Racing 44’56.255s 154.5 74.132s 2013 QUALIFYING TIMES - Q1 14 Randy De Puniet Power Electronics Aspar 44’57.774s 154.4 75.651s Aleix Espargaro Power Electronics Aspar 318.8 2’06.112s 15 Yonny Hernandez Paul Bird Motorsport 45’01.714s 154.2 79.591s Bradley Smith Monster Yamaha Tech 3 336.8 2’06.591s 0.479s 16 Michael Laverty Paul Bird Motorsport 45’16.514s 153.4 94.391s 13 Andrea Iannone Energy T.I. Pramac Racing 335.0 2’06.872s 0.760s 17 Hiroshi Aoyama Avintia Blusens 45’21.946s 153.1 99.823s 14 Randy De Puniet Power Electronics Aspar 315.3 2’07.129s 1.017s 18 Hector Barbera Avintia Blusens 45’22.075s 153.1 99.952s 15 Hector Barbera Avintia Blusens 316.9 2’07.717s 1.605s 19 Claudio Corti NGM Mobile Forward Racing 45’28.896s 152.7 106.773s 16 Yonny Hernandez Paul Bird Motorsport 315.4 2’07.738s 1.626s 20 Bryan Staring GO&FUN Honda Gresini 45’30.207s 152.6 108.084s 17 Michael Laverty Paul Bird Motorsport 310.2 2’08.259s 2.147s 21 Blake Young Attack Performance Racing 43’46.367s 151.1 1 Lap 18 Colin Edwards NGM Mobile Forward Racing 313.4 2’08.475s 2.363s NC Danilo Petrucci Came IodaRacing Project 28’11.943s 152.4 8 Laps 19 Claudio Corti NGM Mobile Forward Racing 315.9 2’08.792s 2.680s NC Lukas Pesek Came IodaRacing Project 28’12.358s 152.4 8 Laps 20 Danilo Petrucci Came Iodaracing Project 315.0 2’08.825s 2.713s NC Colin Edwards NGM Mobile Forward Racing 24’18.297 149.7 10 Laps 21 Hiroshi Aoyama Avintia Blusens 310.0 2’09.062s 2.950s DNS Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing ------22 Bryan Staring GO&FUN Honda Gresini 311.6 2’10.098s 3.986s 23 Lukas Pesek Came IodaRacing Project 313.8 2’10.507s 4.395s 2013 FASTEST LAP 24 Blake Young Attack Performance Racing 307.2 2’10.606s 4.494s Lap 3 - Marc Marquez - 2’04.242s - 159.7 Km/h 25 Karel Abraham Cardion AB Motoracing 310.5 2’23.317s 17.205s

SOURCE : www.motogp.com * RIDERS QUALIFIED FROM Q1

BRIDGESTONE MOTORSPORT ROUND-UP BRIDGESTONE FACT INDYCAR Team Penske had a successful outing at the 2014 IndyCar season opener at St Petersburg, with Will THE BACK STRAIGHT AT CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS IS THE LONGEST STRAIGHT ON THE MOTOGP Power winning the race and his teammate Helio Castroneves taking third place. Andretti Autosports’ Ryan Hunter- CALENDAR. AT 1200 METRES, IT IS 59 METRES Reay split the duo on the podium by claiming second place at a race where tyre strategy played a major role. 16 of the LONGER THAN THE MAIN STRAIGHT AT MUGELLO. 22 entrants started on the alternate Firehawk tyres, while 7 of the 20 finishers crossed the line using the primary tyre. The second round of the IndyCar championship takes place this weekend at Long Beach.

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