2024 July 05

Bridgestone Co., Ltd. will support 17 teams participating in the “2024 FIM*1 World Endurance Championship (hereafter, EWC) “Coca Cola” Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race 45th Tournament” (hereafter, Suzuka 8 Hours) to be held at the Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture from 7/19 (Friday) to 21 (Sun) with tires from the premium motorcycle tire brand “BATTLAX” (Buttrax).

For Bridgestone, motor sports is the “origin” and “challenge to the extreme” as a tire manufacturer.
The Suzuka 8 Hours, which is a representative race of our motorcycle motor sports activities, is one of Japan's leading motor sports events that have become a summer tradition in Suzuka, and road surface temperatures during the day sometimes exceed 60 degrees, making it an extremely tough endurance race for both vehicles and riders. Teams equipped with Bridgestone tires have won the championship in 16 consecutive tournaments since 2006, and Bridgestone will support the support team from the ground up again this year and aim for the 17th consecutive title. Also, the Suzuka 8 Hours is the 3rd EWC race this season, and it is a race with a high level of global attention. At the EWC, teams equipped with Bridgestone tires won last season's series championship*2, and this season they also won the first round “24 Hours of Le Mans” and round 2 “Spa 8 Hours,” and this time the Suzuka 8 Hours is an important race for teams equipped with Bridgestone tires to win 4 consecutive EWC Series titles.

Also, this year, we will supply tires with an improved ratio of renewable resources to Team Suzuki CN Challenge*3, which will compete in the “Experimental Class,” and will support the challenge of the Team Suzuki CN Challenge from the ground up.

Through motor sports, Bridgestone is strengthening sustainable global motor sports activities based on a new message of “Passion to Turn the World (Passion to Change the World),” which incorporates the passion to enjoy racing, stick to winning, and accelerate innovation, and also the passion to support a sustainable mobility society together with peers. Using racing as a “running laboratory,” technology refined under extreme conditions will be reflected in commercial tire development based on the concept of “From Circuit to Street,” and will also be connected to the next stage of technology development. We will build a sustainable premium brand by showing our stakeholders this new form and passion of “challenging ourselves to the limit.”

At the Bridgestone special booth at the Suzuka Circuit, various exhibitions and events are planned as follows so that you can enjoy the Suzuka 8 Hours even more by seeing, touching, and experiencing the “BATTLAX HYPERSPORT S23,” the premium motorcycle tire brand “BATTLAX,” which went on sale in February. Please be sure to stop by.

• An exhibition introducing Bridgestone's technical capabilities through motor sports, which is a place of “extreme,” the “best” tire performance of “BATTLAX”, and the history of our participation in the Suzuka 8 Hours
• An exhibition introducing our thoughts and efforts for sustainable global motorsports
• Talk show by guests with ties to the Suzuka 8 Hours
• Planning racing car/super mini bike riding experiences, tire warmer experiences, quiz rallies, SNS posting campaigns, etc. so that a wide range of customers can enjoy it

Also, various information about the Suzuka 8 Hours, such as race updates and highlights, will be distributed sequentially on the website, so be sure to check it out.

• Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race Special Page (Bridgestone Motorcycle Tire Site)
• EWC/Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race Bulletin/Race Report (Bridgestone Motorsports Site)
• Special Contents (Bridgestone Motorsports site)
• @BS_MCsport (the official X (old Twitter) account for Bridgestone Motorcycle Tires)
• @BSMS_2 (Bridgestone Motorsports WEB Motorcycle Official X (old Twitter) account)

Bridgestone will contribute to the development of safe, secure, and enjoyable motorcycle culture and motor sports culture through the “best product” of the premium motorcycle tire brand “BATTLAX” and sustainable global motor sports activities, thereby “supporting the emotional emotional mobility experience” set forth in the corporate commitment “Bridgestone E8 Commitment” *5 We have made a commitment and will continue to provide “driving excitement” even after 10 and 20 years.

＜Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race Overview＞

＜Bridgestone Support Team (17 teams in total) ＞

＜Class: Formula EWC (EWC) (16 teams) ＞

Participate all year round	No	team	riders
〇	1	YAMALUBE YART YAMAHA EWC Official Team	Niccolo CANEPA	Marvin Fritz	Karel Hanica
-	2	DUCATI TEAM KAGAYAMA	Mizuno Ryo	Josh Waters	Hafizh Syahrin
-	3	KRP SANYOUKOUGYO RSITOH	Yanagawa Akira	Sano Yuto	SANO Katsuhito
〇	5	F.C.C. TSR Honda France	Josh Hook	Mike Di MEGLIO	Alan Techer
-	6	Team TARO PLUSONE with SDG	Sekiguchi Taro	Okuda Kyosuke	Ben Young
〇	12	Yoshimura SERT Motul	Gregg BLACK	Dan LINFOOT	Atsumi Kokoro
-	17	Astemo Honda Dream SI Racing	Kouta Nozane	Haneda Taiga	Sakumoto Kosuke
-	20	Honda Suzuka Racing Team	Sugiyama Yuki	Hane Takumi	Motoharu Itō
-	30	Team HRC with Japan Post	TAKAHASHI Takumi	Nagoshi Teppei	Johann ZARCO
-	31	TEAM SUGAI MOTO BUM RACING JAPAN	Sugai Yoshiyuki	Matsukawa Yasuhiro	Aota Kai
-	40	TeamATJ with Docomo Business	Iwata Satoru	Suzuki Korai	Okaya Yuta
-	71	Honda Dream RT Sakurai Honda	Kazuki Itō	Hiura Daijiro
-	73	SDG Team HARC-PRO. Honda	Yuki Kunii	URAMOTO Osamu	Mario Suryo AJI
-	76	Auto Race Ube Racing Team	Tsuda Takuya	Barry Baltus	Anthony West
-	88	Honda Asia-Dream Racing with Astemo	Zaqhwan Bin Zaidi	Andi Farid Izdihar	Nakarin Atiratphuvapat
-	104	TOHO Racing	Kiyonari Ryuichi	Watanabe Kazuki	Enokido Ikuhiro

＜Class: Experimental (EXP) (1 team) ＞

Participate all year round	No	team	riders
-	0	TEAM SUZUKI CN CHALLENGE	Etienne MASSON	Hamahara Hayamichi	Hideyuki Ikata

*The above competition system is as of 6/26 and is subject to change.
*Team names are listed in order based on their number.

＜Bridgestone Special Booth＞
The special booth is scheduled to be exhibited from 7/19 (Fri) to 21 (Sun).

(1) Main Exhibitions

[Tires]
■ Commercial tires (4 types)
Sports “BATTLAX HYPERSPORT S23,” “BATTLAX HYPERSPORT S22,”
“BATTLAX RACING STREET RS11”
Touring “BATTLAX SPORT TOURING T32”
■ Race mounted tires (3 types)
YOSHIMURA SERT MOTUL “2024 Le Mans 24 Hour Endurance Race Champion Tires Installed When Winning”
YART YAMAHA EWC OFFICIAL TEAM “2023 Bordeaux 24 Hour Endurance Race Champion Wear Tire”
Team Suzuki CN Challenge “Tires with improved renewable resources/renewable resource ratio to be worn at the 2024 Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Race”

[Vehicle]
■ HONDA “CBR1000RR-R”
■ SUZUKI “GSX-R1000R”
■ YAMAHA “YZF-R1”

(2) Main events
■ Talk show inviting guests with ties to the Suzuka 8 Hours
■ Race car crossing experience
■ Tire warmer experience
■ BATTLAX MOTORSPORTS QUIZ RALLY
■ SNS posting campaign
■ Distribution of fans showing the stats of teams equipped with Bridgestone tires, etc.

For event details, please see the Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race special page (Bridgestone motorcycle tire site).

1. *1 An abbreviation for FIM International Motorcycling Federation (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme).
2. *2 Bridgestone motorcycle tires won the series championship at the world's highest race “2023 FIM World Endurance Championship”
3. *32024/3/22 Suzuki News Release “Suzuki Participates in Suzuka 8 Hour Endurance Road Race with Sustainable Fuel”
4. *4 “By far” refers to our goals as a company.
5. *5 “Bridgestone E8 Commitment (Bridgestone E8 Commitment)”
   Bridgestone has established the corporate commitment “Bridgestone E8 Commitment” to realize its vision of “becoming a company that continuously provides social value and customer value as a sustainable solution company in 2050.” Using this as the axis for advancing management while gaining trust from the future, we are committed to supporting a sustainable society by creating the eight values (Energy, Ecology, Efficiency, Extension, Economy, Emotion, Ease, Ease, and Satisfaction) starting with “E” typical of Bridgestone, with goals and means typical of Bridgestone, together with employees, society, partners, and customers.

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