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Sachsenring - Bridgestone Qualifying Report
18 July 2009
In the first qualifying session of the season to be run in wet conditions, Fiat Yamaha's Valentino Rossi took his third pole position of 2009 with a great last lap effort on Bridgestone's wet tyres. Using the hard compound Bridgestone wets, Rossi's pole time was 0.2seconds quicker than the fastest lap of last year's wet race.
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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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Italian Grand Prix debrief with Tohru Ubukata
02 June 2009
Rain struck again in Mugello for the second consecutive race in mixed conditions. All riders started on Bridgestone’s wet tyres, but as soon as lap four were entering the pits to change to their dry bikes with slick 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 Sets Early Pace on Bridgestone's Medium Compound
11 April 2009
Of the available soft and medium compounds brought to Qatar by Bridgestone, Australian Casey Stoner repeated his strong pre-season form to head the field using medium compound tyres. Behind the number 27 Ducati Team rider, Fiat Yamaha's Valentino Rossi was second fastest and Colin Edwards finished third for Monster Yamaha Tech3.
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Stoner Ahead in Qatar as Bridgestone Accelerates Tyre Development
04 March 2009
During the three day night test at the Losail circuit, ahead of the season’s opening night race on 12 April, Bridgestone not only gathered valuable tyre compound selection data for forthcoming grands prix, but upped its 2010 tyre development programme following the recent FIM regulation changes.
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Bridgestone MotoGP: Jerez/Philip Island Tests Debrief
02 December 2008
The final MotoGP tests of 2008 took place at the end of last week with eight teams enjoying a two-day test at Circuito de Jerez in Southern Spain and two teams testing at Australia’s Philip Island Circuit over three days. Reigning world champion Valentino Rossi ended the Jerez test as the fastest rider, setting a time of 1’ 39.429s on the second day, edging out the Dani Pedrosa’s first day fastest time of 1’ 39.525s. The test took place over 26th-27th November and fourteen riders took to the track over the course of the two days. On the final day, Pedrosa was second fastest to Rossi, whilst the third to sixth fastest riders, Jorge Lorenzo, Toni Elias, Alex De Angelis and Nicky Hayden, were separated by just 0.06s, illustrating the very close level of competition, even for those riders who have changed teams from the 2008 season.
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Bridgestone Begins 09 Preparations with Encouraging Valencia Test
28 October 2008
Less than 24 hours after Casey Stoner took victory in the final race of the 2008 season, Bridgestone’s preparations for the 2009 season got underway with a test at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia. Bridgestone will be the sole tyre supplier to the MotoGP championship from 2009 and the Valencia test marked the first occasion to evaluate new specification tyres with all teams and riders for next year. A total of 18 MotoGP riders participated in the test on Monday with some riders joining new teams and others enjoying their first taste of MotoGP machinery. In accordance with the agreed tyre restrictions for this test, Bridgestone supplied a total of 12 slick tyres to each rider, consisting of two different front and rear specifications.
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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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Stoner Grabs Ninth Pole Of Season in Valencia
25 October 2008
Ducati rider Casey Stoner has taken his ninth pole position of the 2008 season in this afternoon’s Valencia GP qualifying session, taking to twelve the total number of Bridgestone-shod poles this year, double the number that was achieved last year. Stoner’s result will be the final pole position lap to be set using the softer specification ‘qualifiers’ with next year’s tyre regulations looking set to remove the possibility to use specific qualifying tyres. Honda rider Dani Pedrosa claimed his second consecutive front row start on Bridgestone tyres, lapping just 0.053s slower than Stoner’s pole lap. Nicky Hayden, who was the pacesetter in all three practice sessions prior to qualifying, finished in third position.
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Wet Start to Final Event of Season in Valencia
24 October 2008
Riders endured a wet start to the final race weekend of the season as free practice for Sunday’s Valencia Grand Prix got underway at Circuit Ricardo Tormo today. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa was the quickest Bridgestone-shod rider of the day securing second position on the combined practice standings, just 0.087s off the pace set by Nicky Hayden who was the quickest rider in both morning and afternoon sessions aboard his Honda. A total of five Bridgestone riders were represented in the top ten with Valentino Rossi in fourth place for Yamaha, Casey Stoner in fifth position for Ducati, Sylvain Guintoli in eighth for Alice Team and Shinya Nakano in tenth for Honda Gresini.
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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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Pedrosa Takes First Bridgestone Pole in Malaysia
18 October 2008
Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa has stormed to pole position in this afternoon’s turbulent qualifying hour, taking his first pole on Bridgestone tyres in today’s wet-dry session. Pedrosa set his time in the dying moments of the session, topping the timesheets by an impressive 0.4s from Fiat Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi who claimed his tenth front row start of 2008. Pedrosa and Rossi were the only two men to dip under the 2m02s mark with lap times continuing to tumble as the long 5.543km Sepang track dried out throughout the session. Jorge Lorenzo took the final front row spot with third place for Fiat Yamaha. Such was the frantic nature of the qualifying hour that a total of 12 different riders held provisional pole at some point in the session with a total of 37 different changes of provisional pole position time during the sixty minutes.
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Bridgestone Riders on Form in Sepang Practice
17 October 2008
Bridgestone has enjoyed a solid start to the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend with several of its riders setting competitive lap times after the opening two free practice sessions at the Sepang International Circuit today. A total of six Bridgestone-shod riders frequented the top ten of the combined standings with 2008 World Champion Valentino Rossi second fastest, setting his personal best in the one-hour morning session. That time was quickest of the session and it was not until the dying moments of the afternoon practice that his benchmark was beaten, albeit by a mere 0.026s, by Tech 3 Yamaha’s Colin Edwards, who was the fastest man of the day. Ducati’s Casey Stoner, winner of the Malaysian race last year and victor in Phillip Island two weeks’ ago, finished in third place three-tenths-of-a-second off Edwards’ pace, ahead of San Carlo Honda Gresini man Shinya Nakano. Nakano has been in competitive form throughout the day and set the standard for most of the afternoon session.
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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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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's Runaway San Marino Bridgestone Victory
05 September 2008
The San Marino and Riviera di Rimini Grand Prix gave Fiat Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi his sixth race win of the season and third in a row as he extended his lead of the world championship to 262 points with just five races remaining. The win represented the 30th MotoGP victory on Bridgestone tyres and took Rossi to 68 premier class triumphs, equalling Giacomo Agostini’s record. For the second race in a row, Alice Team’s Toni Elias fought comfortably towards the front of field to claim a well deserved podium finish. His third place in Misano means that the Spaniard has taken 36 points from a possible 50 in the last two events.
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