Comprehensive testing of a range of run-flat tyres sponsored by Auto Express magazine has found that Bridgestone run-flat tyres are the best available.

The testing, that involved tyres from all the leading manufacturers, showed that Bridgestone run–flat tyres performed better in wet conditions and equally as well in terms of rolling resistance and dry handling.

Bridgestone started developing their range of run-flat tyres in 1986 and have been leading the field ever since. The top selling ER300 RFT is now fitted as original equipment on Audi, BMW and VW as well as Ferrari Maserati and Porsche.

The fitting of run-flat tyres is not something that should be entrusted to ill-equipped tyre depots or garages. Specialist equipment and training is essential because run-flat tyres are much more difficult to work with that traditional tyres. etyres is officially certificated by Bridgestone to fit their run-flat tyres. Our mobile tyre fitting vans have the latest equipment and our tyre fitters are trained to carry out any installation.

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The World Motor Sport Council have confirmed that Bridgestone will be the sole supplier of tyres to F! for the 2008 season.

Michelin and Bridgestone were due to be the joint supplier of tyres for the 2007 F1 season but Michelin have now withdrawn. This leaves Bridgestone as sole supplier. Now Bridgestone have been named as the sole supplier of tyres for the 2008 season as well.

Bridgestone has been making racing car tyres for a number of years and entered F1 in 1997. They have achieved considerable success with their tyres while at the same time Michelin have suffered numerous embarrassing mishaps. The most widely publicised of these was the fiasco experienced in the United States race in 2005 when the seven teams that were using Michelin tyres could not race. This caused a heated dispute between Edouard Michelin and FIA director Max Mosley which could have contributed to the decision by Michelin to withdraw their supply of tyres for F1 at that time.

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Press Release : World Motorsports Council