Wednesday, July 22, 2020

The Yokohama Tires display at SEMA 2019


Yokohama Tires display at the 2019 SEMA show




The outdoor Yokohama tire exhibit at the 2019 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show was very unique in its compact display of Yokohama ADVAN tire-equipped race cars. ADVAN tires are race-inspired and street legal, and allow drivers to experience exceptional handling with their high performance sports cars.



In 2019, Yokohama Tire Corporation celebrated its 50th anniversary in the United States.  ADVAN tires are manufactured in the US at Yokohama’s 1.2-million square foot Salem, Virginia facility. Yokohama also has a $300 million one-million square foot commercial truck tire manufacturing facility in West Point Mississippi. 



The first featured car at the SEMA 2019 display was this 2006 BMW M3 E46 GTR raced by Tom Milner’s Prototype Technology Group (PTG) in 2006 with ADVAN 2005 series tires. During its 11 seasons with BMW, the PTG partnership yielded titles in IMSA, the United States Road Racing Club championship, the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am Series. Powered by a 3.4-liter inline six cylinder engine, Team PTG finished in sixth place in the 2006 American LeMans Series GT2 class.


This Panoz Esperante GTLMe was one of two raced by PTG during the 2007, 2008 and 2009 American Lemans Series seasons in the GT2 class. Powered by 5-liter Ford V-8 engines, the PTG team finished seventh in 2007, sixth in 2008 and fifth in the 2209 season final standings. 




Also on display was the ADVAN 2006 Porsche 911 GTS Cup racer.  For the 2020 racing season, Yokohama is the title sponsor and the ADVAN A052 series is the specified tire for the Porsche Sprint Trophy USA West and Porsche Air-Cooled Cup USA series, as well as the Porsche Sprint Trophy USA West Invitational.



This Yokohama display also included this striking display of hoods with graphics showing the layouts of the tracks which challenge the competitors in the Porsche GT3 Challenge Cup USA presented by Yokohama.




This is the 2018 Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport driven by Yokohama brand ambassador Travis Pastrana to victory in the Porsche Pikes Peak Trophy by Yokohama class at the famed Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in 2018 and 2019. The three-time AMA Motocross and Supercross Champion, X-Game winner and stunt performer set the class-winning time of 10-minute, 33.897 seconds in 2018 in this car equipped with ADVAN A502 tires.



Also on display was this Yokohama sponsored and equipped 2019 Toyota Baja trophy truck built by Racer Engineering.



No 2019 SEMA exhibit would have been complete without a display of 2020 Toyota GR Supra this one of course was equipped with ADVAN APEX V601® high-performance tires.   
Check out the ADVAN website at https://www.yokohamatire.com/advan-tires

All photographs by the author who is a proud member of SEMA 



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