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Bridgestone Announces 2025 Motorsports Plan

10/04/2025

Reinforcing Sustainable Global Motorsports

9th April 2025 - Bridgestone Corporation announced its 2025 motorsports plan. In 2025, the company will continue to support various domestic and overseas
motorsports, ranging from top-level professional race series to grassroots amateur races, to further enhance and support motorsport culture. Valuing its
"origin" as a tyre manufacturer, the company will contribute to the development of motorsport culture by reinforcing the sustainable global motorsport as a
“mobile laboratory” and connecting the refined technologies under extreme conditions to the development of replacement car and motorcycle tyres.

In top-level professional race series, Bridgestone’s support will primarily come through supplying Bridgestone POTENZA tyres for SUPER GT car races in
Japan. The company will also provide Bridgestone BATTLAX tyres for motorcycle races for All Japan Road Race Championship motorcycle races and
Endurance World Championship (EWC), the world's foremost series of endurance motorcycle races by Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).
With Firestone FIREHAWK tyres for car races, the company serves as the exclusive tyre supplier for the prestigious motorsport series in North America, the
NTT INDYCAR® SERIES*1, which includes INDY500.

Bridgestone also supports grassroots motorsports. For example, the company continues to supply tyres to Super Taikyu Series races as the official tyre
supplier. In addition, it will supply tyres for the All-Japan Gymkhana Championship and Mazda’s grassroots motorsport races as well as the TOYOTA GAZOO
Racing GR86/BRZ Cup, a race series that uses mass-produced tyres, and the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Rally Challenge, a grassroots motorsport rally for
beginners. At the same time, the company will seek to expand the fanbase for motorsport through the continuation of the POTENZA Circuit Challenge, an
open-participation event that offers beginners the opportunity to take their first drive around the circuit. Through its involvement in these and other races
across the globe, Bridgestone will continue to advance and refine its technologies and brand power by pursuing the limits of maximum tyre performance
under extreme conditions as it seeks to support the safety of all drivers and riders from professionals to amateurs and teams, and to empower each and all to
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