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 Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Suzuki Endurance Racing Team, outfitted with high-performance DUNLOP Brand tires supplied by our company, was crowned World Champions of the 2019-2020 FIM Endurance World Championship after placing fourth in the fourth and final race of the series: the 12 Hours of Estoril, which was held in Portugal on September 26. 

Celebrating at the Podium	SUZUKI GSX-R1000

 After placing first in the Bol d’Or in France a year ago, Suzuki Endurance Racing Team went on to place fifth in the 8 Hours of Sepang in Malaysia before again achieving a podium finish this August, when they placed third in the 24 Hours of le Mans in France. Keeping up this momentum, Suzuki Endurance Racing Team next finished fourth in the final race of the series, the 12 Hours of Estoril in Portugal, which was more than enough to earn the team the title of World Champions, as they had finished all four races in the top five, demonstrating steady and solid driving performance through a total of 7,356km of endurance racing.
 With races taking place in all seasons and at circuits throughout the world, the FIM World Endurance Championship requires tires that can harness high performance regardless of the race conditions, providing stable grip on both wet and dry roads while adapting to varying road and temperature conditions as the weather changes over the course of a single, multi-hour race, not to mention between races held in different regions and seasons.The results of the 2019-2020 FIM Endurance World Championship serve as further proof of the all-around high performance of our DUNLOP tires, which supported Suzuki Endurance Racing Team on the road to winning the title of World Champions. In the future, Sumitomo Rubber Industries will continue to provide our high-performance tires to riders throughout the world so that we can support riding in all shapes and sizes at the road level.