With 125 years of history and with endurance racing at the heart of Dunlop’s racing, 2014 sees the company planning on expanding its presence in the sector. With 34 wins at Le Mans making Dunlop the most successful tyre manufacturer in history, two Nürburgring 24 Hour victories in the last four years and two successive LMP2 Championship titles in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) no one can doubt Dunlop’s commitment to the sport.

Dunlop teams’ performances at the pre-season test at Paul Ricard for the WEC and European Le Mans Series (ELMS) gave the first indications of the performance of the 2014 range.

Dunlop is also sole tyre supplier to the International GT Open championship, one of the biggest GT championships in the world. New for 2014 is the one-brand supply agreement with the BMW M235i Cup, a class of the VLN series in which Dunlop also supplies customer teams. Dunlop celebrated success in GT racing last year with AMG, winning the Nürburgring 24 Hours with the Black Falcon team and the VLN 6hrs with the Rowe team. During 2014, due to a relocation of production, Dunlop’s GT3 development tyre activity will focus on new technology for success in 2015 and beyond, with 2014 being a year of testing.

James Bailey, Marketing and Communications Director, Dunlop Motorsport: “Dunlop’s ethos is about working with customers and providing the best product to help our partner teams achieve victory. We are delighted to strengthen our Endurance presence by adding the BMW M235i Cup to our portfolio of one-brand championships. In GT championships where we have open competition, we are continuing to test development specification tyres with the aim of partnering with top teams in 2015 and beyond.

“We approach our first endurance event this coming weekend at Silverstone with the ELMS and WEC races with new and better tyres than ever before. Our customers are very happy with the results of our development work over the winter and we had very good tests at Paul Ricard earlier this month where we were fastest in eight of the ten sessions, with five different teams topping the timing sheets. In the overall times the top four WEC teams were on Dunlop tyres and in ELMS we had the two fastest teams, even without running our soft compound. ”