The weather is one of the big challenges for a tyre supplier at the Portuguese circuit of Estoril, home of the third round of the Moto2 World Championship. Sure enough, after a wet start to the weekend, it was a dry qualifying. The current weather forecast for race day is mixed sunshine and clouds with highs [...]

Dunlop’s Moto2 tyres have the multi-surface Portuguese circuit of Estoril to put them through their paces for the third round of the Moto2 World Championship – the Grande Prémio de Portugal Circuito Estoril – on May 4-6. Circuit surface variety and weather variability are the two foremost challenges of the 4.18km Autódromo Fernanda Pires da [...]

This weekend’s second round of the Moto2 World Championship held in Jerez, Spain, sees the latest specification Dunlop Moto2 front tyre in use for the first time at a race weekend. Stephen Bickley, Senior Race Engineer,  Motorcycle, for Dunlop Motorsport, explains the reasoning behind the change to the latest slimline front as well as other developments [...]

Moto2 World Championship lap times could be set to get yet faster as Official Tyre Supplier Dunlop will unleash a new slimline front tyre for the second round of the championship, the Gran Premio bwin de España – Spanish Grand Prix – in Jerez, Spain on April 27-29. The new profile – made to Dunlop’s [...]

The Moto2 World Championship looks set to be faster than ever as Dunlop readies for season three of the premier MotoGP feeder category which gets underway at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar on April 5-8. Last year Moto2 lap times tumbled, with records broken – often by over one second – at 12 of [...]

2011 was a busy year for Dunlop in the realm of motorcycle racing.   Here, Steve Male, Dunlop Motorcycle Motorsports Manager, review the past year.