Dunlop teams have provided another incredibly competitive season of racing in both the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and European Le Mans Series (ELMS).
FIA World Endurance Championship
• 4 out of 8 pole positions and 4 out of 8 wins helped 26 G-Drive Racing become WEC champions.
• KCMG set the most fastest race laps with 4 in total – 3 to Nick Tandy and 1 to Gustav Yacaman.
• Dunlop teams took all pole positions, all fastest laps and 23 of the 24 podium places, only missing one third place.
• 6 different Dunlop teams stood on the WEC podium during 2015. The only identical top-three occurred at COTA and Bahrain where 26 G-Drive won ahead of KCMG and 28 G-Drive – the same as the championship finishing positions.
Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2:
• Top 5 finishers were on Dunlop tyres & 8 out of top 10 finishers
• 3 different teams led the race – all on Dunlop tyres
• Winning car used just 9 sets tyres for 24 hour race
• All 3 Dunlop slick options quadruple stinted – each set racing for over 650km
European Le Mans Series
• Jota Sport took 4 pole positions out of 5. They also set 3 of the 5 fastest race laps.
• No team won more than 2 of the 5 races in the 3 categories featuring Dunlop tyres.
• 10 different teams wore Dunlop caps on the top step of their respective podium: 3 each in LMP2 and GTC with 4 different teams winning in LM GTE (Formula Racing was the only team to win two events in LM GTE).
• Every brand of car that competed in GT classes took at least one podium finish: Ferrari, Aston Martin, BMW, Porsche and Lamborghini.
Distances:
Dunlop endurance teams covered more than 114,400 kilometres in the two championships in 2015 – that’s more than four times round the world.
Mike McGregor, Manager Testing & Track Support, Race Design & Development : “We are delighted with another strong performance from our tyres this year. We had a successful first one-brand European Le Mans Series GT category with a good range of teams and different car brands fighting for the top places. We’re looking forward to introducing our new and improved GT tyre range for 2016. The statistics also show how strong our LMP2 tyres are in open competition. A highlight of the year was the Le Mans 24 Hour race with all three slick compounds running for four stints – that’s around three hours without changing tyres. It shows how much we have advanced tyre technology when ten years ago we were celebrating just half of that distance on one set. That doesn’t mean that we stop improving though – we have already made significant progress on our proposed range for 2016 with our first major test taking place just two days after the WEC season finished.”