After each year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, MICHELIN Competition’s engineers, chemists and developers begin work on the firm’s range of endurance rubber tyres for the following season. As a result, new evolutions were available at Silverstone at the beginning of the month for the 2011-spec LMP1 and GT cars.

This week, MICHELIN and a number of its partners were at Aragon-Motorland, Spain, to evaluate new solutions for 2012. Audi, Porsche and Ferrari all attended this session which was given over to slick tyres.

A second test will be held at Estoril, Portugal, later this month when work will focus on the intermediate and rain tyres that will be used in next year’s different endurance racing championships, including the World Endurance Championship which will kick off at Sebring, Florida, in March.

Aragon-Motorland, Audi, Ferrari, Michelin, Porsche