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Pedrosa Clinches His First Win on Bridgestone Tyres
07 July 2009
Dani Pedrosa triumphed in a nail-biting climax to round eight of the MotoGP season to take his first victory of the year, and his and the Repsol Honda Team's first victory on Bridgestone tyres.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Preview - Round 6: Catalunya
09 June 2009
The Circuit de Catalunya hosts the sixth round of the 2009 MotoGP season and marks the first race of the year to which Bridgestone will bring its asymmetric slick rear tyres.
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Bridgestone Beats the Weather as Stoner Wins in Wet/Dry Mugello
31 May 2009
Casey Stoner won his first Italian Grand Prix for the Ducati Team in mixed conditions that saw all riders start the 23 lap race on Bridgestone's wet tyres and switch mid-way to slick tyres in an event reminiscent of the last outing at the Le Mans circuit.
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Bridgestone Motegi Preview
23 April 2009
Round two of the 2009 MotoGP season takes Bridgestone home to an event that has historically yielded great success.
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Stoner Wins Season Finale & Leads All-Bridgestone Podium
27 October 2008
Ducati rider Casey Stoner has today taken victory in the season finale at Valencia, ending the 2008 season as he started it with a dominant win. It is the Australian’s sixth win of the season and the 15th victory for a Bridgestone-shod rider this year. Stoner led an all-Bridgestone podium with Honda’s Dani Pedrosa in second position and 2008 World Champion Valentino Rossi in third, concluding Bridgestone’s most successful MotoGP season in style. The result takes Bridgestone’s combined podium tally for the year to 35 with Stoner’s pole position from Saturday afternoon extending the number of pole results this season to 12.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Valencia
24 October 2008
After 17 races, 435 racing laps over a total distance of 1,965 kilometres, the 2008 MotoGP World Championship enters its final leg this weekend in Valencia for the 18th and last round of the season. Ahead of the Valencia GP, there have been four different race winners this season with Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner strongly representing Bridgestone on the top step of the podium. A total of nine riders have scored podium results with Rizla Suzuki duo Chris Vermeulen and Loris Capirossi, as well as Alice Team’s Toni Elias keeping the red Bridgestone podium caps a frequent sight on the rostrum during the year.
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Rossi Takes Ninth Win of Season
20 October 2008
Bridgestone-shod Valentino Rossi has claimed victory in this afternoon’s Malaysian Grand Prix to take the ninth win of his championship-winning season. The Yamaha rider took the lead from Honda’s Dani Pedrosa at the halfway point of the race and continued to build an unassailable lead up to the chequered flag. The win represents the 14th win on Bridgestone tyres in the 17 races held so far this year with just the Valencia GP remaining next week. Pole sitter Pedrosa led into the first corner and fended off Rossi for 11 laps before settling into a comfortable second place where he ultimately finished the 21-lap race. Second marks a one place improvement over Pedrosa’s previous best on Bridgestone tyres, a third place in Japan three weeks ago, in only his fourth race running with Bridgestone. Fellow Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso rounded out the podium in third place just over four-seconds behind Pedrosa.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Malaysia
16 October 2008
MotoGP is set for a frantic final flourish to the 2008 championship as the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia plays host to the penultimate race of this year’s campaign before the whirlwind tour moves to Valencia next week for the season finale. This weekend’s event will be the tenth consecutive MotoGP race to be held at the Sepang International Circuit since the Malaysian GP event was moved there back in 1999. Alongside Shanghai and Catalunya, it is one of three circuits on this year’s calendar that also holds Formula One races, so Bridgestone can boast a wide-ranging pedigree at the track.
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Stoner Takes Emphatic Home Victory Heading Bridgestone 1-2
06 October 2008
Ducati rider Casey Stoner took a tremendous home victory at Phillip Island this afternoon, claiming his and Bridgestone’s second consecutive Australian Grand Prix win. It is Stoner’s fifth win of the season and further cements his second place in the world championship with two races remaining. The popular victory also takes the total number of wins by riders using Bridgestone tyres this season to thirteen, one more than were scored last season with just the Malaysia and Valencia events still to run.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Australia
02 October 2008
Fresh from an exciting weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix in which Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi claimed his sixth premier class title, and first using Bridgestone tyres, MotoGP moves directly to the picturesque Phillip Island circuit in southern Australia for round 16 of this season’s 18-race championship. The Australian GP has been a permanent fixture on the calendar since Phillip Island hosted the first event at the end of the 1980s. A string of races were held at the Eastern Creek circuit in Sydney from 1991-1996 before Phillip Island regained hosting duties from 1997 where it has remained ever since. This season’s event will be the 14th in total to be held at the challenging track.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Round 14: Indianapolis
11 September 2008
Bridgestone is hoping to continue its competitive run of form at this weekend’s inaugural Indianapolis Grand Prix, the second race to be held on American soil this season.
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Rossi Wins in Brno as Bridgestone Riders Take Top Honours
17 August 2008
Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi has this afternoon claimed his fifth win of the season at the Czech Republic Grand Prix, leading an all-Bridgestone podium in a race which saw the top eight places occupied by riders using Bridgestone tyres. It is Bridgestone’s best combined result in MotoGP, beating the previous best top six result from Turkey 2007, and the tyre manufacturer’s third consecutive win in Brno.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Czech Republic
12 August 2008
With batteries recharged after three weekends of no racing action, MotoGP makes a welcome return in Brno where the fierce battle for this year’s thrilling championship will recommence. Brno is the second most visited city in premier class history with a total of 31 events held since 1965. 11 races were held on the old road course which was used until 1977. After a ten-year break, a new-look 5.4km Brno circuit was introduced to the championship, where, with the sole exception of the 1992 season, it has remained ever since.
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Rossi Wins Laguna Seca Epic
21 July 2008
Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi has today scored a magnificent victory at the Laguna Seca Raceway after an epic 32-lap US Grand Prix which saw Ducati’s Casey Stoner and Rizla Suzuki’s Chris Vermeulen complete an all-Bridgestone podium for the second race in succession. Rossi and Stoner were involved in a tight tussle at the front for much of the race, building up a massive 22 second gap to third-placed Vermeulen in a thrilling encounter. Stoner endured an off-track excursion on lap 24, but recovered his bike to rejoin the race still in second position with a comfortable cushion to Vermeulen.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - USA
16 July 2008
Fresh from a dominant performance at the Sachsenring in which eight Bridgestone-shod riders secured top ten positions, including the top four, and following a run of three consecutive race wins for Casey Stoner and Ducati, Bridgestone heads to the United States in buoyant mood and ready to face the challenges presented by the famous Laguna Seca Raceway. Laguna Seca made a welcome return to the MotoGP calendar in 2005 and holds its fourth consecutive United States Grand Prix this weekend.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Germany
08 July 2008
Following two sets of back-to-back races in Italy, Catalunya, Britain and the Netherlands in June, MotoGP’s action-packed 2008 tour continues with a third consecutive double-header, starting with this weekend’s trip to Germany, another of motorcycle racing’s most frequented destinations. This year’s event will be the 23rd premier class event to be held at the Sachsenring, which hosted its first race back in 1961, but will be the 66th race in total to be held on German soil since the championship began back in 1949. Sachsenring held the East German GP uninterrupted from 1961-1972 on a closed-road circuit, but rejoined the calendar with a brand new circuit in 1998, where it has remained since. Loris Capirossi scored the best ever result at Sachsenring for a Bridgestone-shod rider in last year’s German GP, taking second place for Ducati in difficult conditions with track temperatures soaring above 50°C. Having enjoyed debut dry weather victories in Mugello, Donington and Assen in recent weeks, Bridgestone will be hoping to cross Sachsenring off its ‘to do’ list this weekend, but is aware of the technical hurdles that it must first overcome.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing
24 June 2008
The shortest race turnaround of the season sees MotoGP make the cross-Channel trek from England to the Netherlands for the legendary Dutch TT event. Practice begins on Thursday morning just three clear days after the chequered flag heralded Casey Stoner as victor of the British Grand Prix at Donington Park last weekend. Along with Estoril and Sachsenring, Assen is one of the few tracks on the calendar where Bridgestone is still to be victorious in MotoGP, although results in the last two years have been close.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Catalunya
06 June 2008
With the sensational 1-2 finish from Mugello still fresh in its mind, Bridgestone heads to the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona for the seventh round of the 2008 MotoGP world championship. Valentino Rossi leads the classification by 12 points after three consecutive wins in China, France and Italy. Second-placed man from Italy, Casey Stoner, scored one of his ten wins in 2007 at the Circuit de Catalunya after an epic cat and mouse battle with Rossi and Dani Pedrosa right up to the chequered flag. The Ducati champion won the 25-lap duel from Rossi by a marginal 0.069s with third placed Pedrosa just 0.390s adrift making it the closest podium of the season. It was the first time that a Bridgestone-shod rider had even finished on the podium in Catalunya.
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Bridgestone Enjoys Mugello 1-2 with Rossi & Stoner
03 June 2008
Bridgestone-shod riders took a magnificent one-two in Mugello this afternoon with Fiat Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi winning by a 2.2 second margin from Ducati’s Casey Stoner. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa took the final podium place in third. The Italian GP victory continues Rossi’s enviable record at Mugello where he remains unbeaten in the MotoGP class, and marks his third consecutive win on Bridgestone tyres after recent success in China and France. It is also the first time that a rider on Bridgestone tyres has taken victory in Mugello. Stoner has enjoyed a competitive weekend in Ducati’s home grand prix and set the fastest lap of the race, a 1m50.003s, beating Max Biaggi’s record that dates back to 2005.
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Bridgestone MotoGP Briefing - Round 6 - Mugello
28 May 2008
With two victories on its tyres in succession at the recent Chinese and French Grands Prix, Bridgestone continues its European tour with MotoGP’s much anticipated visit to the Mugello circuit in Italy this weekend.
One of the most technically demanding race tracks on the MotoGP calendar, Mugello is revered by teams, riders and fans alike. Located in the heart of the Tuscan countryside, the track is one of the longest and fstest of the season, often producing a thrilling racing spectacle for the passionate crowds in attendance.
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