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Bridgestone Announces 2022 Motorsport Plan

Liana Shaw by Liana Shaw
Apr 12, 2022
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Support for various motorsport activities is designed to spread joy to the world of  mobility and provide “Driving Excitement” in 10 years, 20 years, and beyond

·      Bridgestone is engaging in global and sustainable motorsport activities to help further promote and develop motorsport culture.

·      Through a wide range of motorsport activities, Bridgestone will continue to advance and refine its technologies.

Bridgestone Corporation announced its 2022 motorsport plan. In 2022, Bridgestone will continue to support various domestic and overseas motorsports, ranging from top-level professional series to grassroots amateur races, primarily by supplying Bridgestone POTENZA tyres and Firestone FIREHAWK tyres for car races and Bridgestone BATTLAX tyres for motorcycle races. In its quest to keep providing “Driving Excitement” in 10 years, 20 years, and beyond, Bridgestone will continue to contribute to the development of safe, with peace of mind, and fun car, motorcycle, and motorsport cultures.

In South Africa, Bridgestone supplies tyres for the DOE Formula Vee Championship single seater car racing and the Sunbet Kawasaki ZX-10R Masters Cup motorcycle racing. Overseas, it is the SUPER GT car races and All Japan Road Race Championship motorcycle races in Japan. Bridgestone’s Firestone brand is the exclusive tyre supplier for the NTT INDYCAR® SERIES*1 in North America.

Other overseas races supplied with Bridgestone tyres include the Endurance World Championship (EWC), the world’s foremost series of endurance motorcycle races organised by Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).

Bridgestone also supports grassroots motorsports, including the All-Japan Gymkhana Championship and Mazda’s grassroots motorsport races. Bridgestone also sponsors the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge,*2 a world-leading solar car race held in Australia, to support the ambition of aspiring future engineers and help drive the evolution of mobility technologies. 

Bridgestone will continue to advance and refine its technologies through top-level races around the globe that require maximum tyre performance.

*1   Bridgestone has an agreement to act as the exclusive tyre supplier for the NTT INDYCAR® SERIES until 2025.

https://www.bridgestoneamericas.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019/firestone-extends-exclusive-tire-supplier-partnership-with-ntt-i

*2   Bridgestone has an agreement to act as the naming rights sponsor of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge until 2030. The next iteration of this event is scheduled to be held in 2023. https://www.bridgestone.com/corporate/news/2019102101.html

The official website of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge can be found below. https://www.worldsolarchallenge.org/

Media information:

Issued by The Riverbed Agency on behalf of Bridgestone Southern Africa: Lungile Manganyi, Senior Account Executive, E: lungile@theriverbed.co.za C: +27 78 595 2467, T: +27 86 099 4164

About Bridgestone Corporation:

Bridgestone is a global leader in tyres and rubber building on its expertise to provide solutions for safe and sustainable mobility. Headquartered in Tokyo, the company employs approximately 140,000 people globally and conducts business in more than 150 countries and territories worldwide. Bridgestone offers a diverse product portfolio of premium tyres and advanced solutions backed by innovative technologies, improving the way people around the world move, live, work and play.

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