The 2020 8 Hours of Bahrain in November brought the age of hybrid LMP1 prototypes to a close. Introduced in 2012, these technologically-sophisticated machines notched up 61 world-class endurance racing wins, all on Michelin Pilot Sport tyres which delivered on their Performance-Made-to-Last promise. From 2021, the hybrid generation will make way for a new breed of Hypercars.
Sébastien Ogier won the 2020 Rally Monza to notch up his 47th world-class victory and the seventh FIA World Rally Championship crown of his career on Michelin tyres. The Italian event was the final outing of the French firm’s current spell in the FIA WRC which has seen it harvest no fewer than 347 victories, 1,037 podium placings and 58 Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ world titles since the competition’s creation in 1973, aided by a long list of technological innovations and close working relationships with its driver and carmaker partners.
The final clash of the 2020 MotoGPTM World Championship at Portimão was won in assertive fashion by local star Miguel Oliveira (Red Bull KTM Tech 3). The Grande Prémio MEO de Portugal’s pole-sitter comfortably outdistanced Jack Miller (Pramac Racing) and Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) who made it three different bikemakers and two different MICHELIN Power Slick pairings on the podium.
The Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana – Round 14 of the 2020 MotoGPTM World Championship – as won by Franco Morbidelli. The Yamaha Petronas SRT rider was joined on the Valencia podium by Jack Miller (Pramac Racing) and Pol Espargaro (Red Bull KTM Racing Factory), while seventh place sufficed for Joan Mir (Team SUZUKI ECSTAR) to make certain of this season’s Riders’ crown. The MICHELIN Power Slick provided further evidence of its versatility with the top four finishers in Spain running two different tyre combinations.
MOTOGP™ - Torres takes advantage of the superior performance of the current, more environmentally-respectful MICHELIN Power Slick MotoE range to claim the 2020 FIM Enel MotoE™ World Cup
A thrilling finale saw Allan McNish clinch the lead and win at Silverstone with only minutes of the British race remaining! The N°2 Audi of Kristensen/Duval/McNish crossed the finish line just 3.462 seconds clear of the N°1 R18 e-tron quattro line after six hours and 1,161km of racing (197 laps). Toyota had to settle for third and fourth places.
The FIA Formula E Championship will be the highlight of the year in the electric vehicle world. We bring you some of the keys to a better understanding of this new racing series which features electrically-powered single-seater cars.
The 10 registered teams for the FIA Formula E Championship have taken delivery of their first electric single-seater racing cars developed and built by Spark Racing Technology in association with McLaren, Williams, Dallara, Renault and Michelin.
Along with the pairing announced recently by Abt, another complete driver line-up for the FIA Formula E Championship has been made public, since Jaime Alguersuari and Sam Bird have been officially recruited by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Racing Formula.
A test session at Issoire, near Clermont-Ferrand, France, on April 14-16, 2014, enabled Michelin to sign off the new tyre that will feature in the brand-new FIA Formula E World Championship for electric single-seater racing cars which kicks off later this year.
The 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour was brutal and relentless and, in the end, came down to a final fifteen-minute sprint to the chequered flag. The spoils ended up in the hands of Maranello Motorsport’s Peter Edwards, John Bowe, Craig Lowndes and Mika Salo (N°88 Ferrari/Michelin) by a margin of 0.4s over the N°84 Mercedes (HTP)! The N°63 Erebus Mercedes was third to make it an all-Michelin podium in Australia.
Jari-Matti Latvala and Volkswagen Motorsport top the Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ points tables ahead of Rally Mexico, the 2014 WRC’s first gravel round.
After their previous Rally Sweden victories in 2008 and 2012, Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila claimed their third win on the wintry fixture today in Karlstad. VW Polo R WRC/Michelin enjoyed a one-two finish thanks to Andreas Mikkelsen who scored his first ever world class podium. He was joined in the top three by fellow Norwegian Mads Ostberg (Citroën).
After the pristine wintry conditions that marked last week’s pre-event tests, positive temperatures in recent days have completely transformed the 2014 Rally Sweden landscape. The thermometer is expected to fluctuate between -2°C and +2°C this week.
Latvia’s Rally Liepaja, round two of the 2014 FIA European Rally Championship, was won by Finn Esapekka Lappi (Skoda Fabia S2000/Michelin), ahead of Russia’s Vasiliy Gryazin (Fiesta S2000) and Irishman Craig Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000).
There are plenty of stars entered for Round 2 of the FIA European Rally Championship (ERC), Rally Liepaja. Craig Breen (Peugeot 207 S2000), Bryan Bouffier (Citroën DS3 RRC), Esapekka Lappi (Skoda Fabia S2000), Kajetan Kajetanowicz (Ford Fiesta R5) figure among the entry list’s top names.