Editing Michelin (section)

==Motorsport==
[[File:Michelin Porsche 997 GT3 Cup (Porsche Rennsport Reunion IV).jpg|thumb|240px|Michelin is the official tyre supplier of the [[Porsche 911 GT3|Porsche 911 GT3 Cup]] cars used in the [[Porsche Carrera Cup]] and the [[Porsche Supercup]].]]

===MotoGP===
Michelin participated in [[MotoGP]] from 1972 to 2008. They introduced radial construction to MotoGP in 1984, and multi-compound tyres in 1994. They achieved 360 victories in 36 years, and from 1993 to 2006, the world championship had gone to a rider on Michelins.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In 2007, [[Casey Stoner]] on [[Bridgestone]] tyres won the world championship in dominating fashion, and [[Valentino Rossi]] and other top riders complained that Michelins were inferior. Rossi wanted Bridgestones for the 2008 season, but Bridgestone was reluctant to provide them; [[Dorna Sports|Dorna]] threatened to impose a control tyre on the series, after which Bridgestone relented.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In 2008, Michelin committed errors of judgment in allocating adequate tyres for some of the race weekends. [[Dani Pedrosa]]'s team switched to Bridgestones in mid-season, a highly unusual move that caused friction between [[Honda Racing Corporation]] and their sponsor [[Repsol YPF]]. Other riders also expressed concerns and it seemed that Michelin might not have any factory riders for the 2009 season, leading to rumours that Michelin would withdraw from the series altogether. Dorna and the [[Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme|FIM]] announced that a control tyre would be imposed on MotoGP for the 2009 season and Michelin did not enter a bid, effectively ending its participation in the series at the end of 2008.<ref>{{cite news |title=A Fond Farewell |publisher=Michelin.com |date=26 October 2008 |url=http://www.michelin.com/corporate/front/templates/affich.jsp?codeRubriqueListe=20080212104710&codeRubrique=20080214104032&lang=EN&news_id=23940 |access-date=3 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113203412/http://www.michelin.com/corporate/front/templates/affich.jsp?codeRubriqueListe=20080212104710&codeRubrique=20080214104032&lang=EN&news_id=23940 |archive-date=13 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Noyes |first=Dennis |title=Why Dorna is Threatening to Impose a Spec Tire |publisher=Speed (TV channel) |date=3 October 2007 |url=http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp_why_dorna_is_threatening_to_impose_a_spec_tire/ |access-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618164506/http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp_why_dorna_is_threatening_to_impose_a_spec_tire |archive-date=18 June 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Noyes |first=Dennis |title=Michelin's Last Stand (Part I) |publisher=Speed (TV channel) |date=26 August 2008 |url=http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-michelins-last-stand-part-i |access-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911093312/http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-michelins-last-stand-part-i/ |archive-date=11 September 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Noyes |first=Dennis |title=Michelin's Last Stand (Part II) |publisher=[[Speed (TV channel)|Speed]] |date=27 August 2008 |url=http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-michelins-last-stand-part-ii |access-date=3 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912132308/http://moto-racing.speedtv.com/article/motogp-michelins-last-stand-part-ii/ |archive-date=12 September 2008 }}</ref> 

Michelin returned to MotoGP in 2016 as the official tyre supplier after Bridgestone's withdrawal from the series at the end of 2015.<ref>{{cite web|last=McLaren |first=Peter |title=Bridgestone to quit as MotoGP tyre supplier |website=crash.net |date=1 May 2014 |url=https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/203841/1/bridgestone-to-quit-as-motogp-tyre-supplier |access-date=26 January 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417191027/https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/203841/1/bridgestone-to-quit-as-motogp-tyre-supplier |archive-date=17 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Adam |first=Mitchell |title=Valentino Rossi: 2016 MotoGP changes had smaller impact than feared |website=[[Autosport]] |date=4 August 2016 |url=https://www.autosport.com/motogp/news/valentino-rossi-2016-motogp-changes-had-smaller-impact-than-feared-5039059/5039059/ |access-date=26 January 2025 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616200938/https://www.autosport.com/motogp/news/valentino-rossi-2016-motogp-changes-had-smaller-impact-than-feared-5039059/5039059/ |archive-date=16 June 2021}}</ref>

===Formula One===
{{See also|Formula One tyres}}
Michelin first competed in the [[1977 Formula One season]], when Renault started the development of their [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] F1 car.  Michelin introduced [[radial tire|radial tyre]] technology to Formula One and won the [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One Drivers' Championship]] with [[Brabham]] and [[McLaren]], before withdrawing at the end of 1984.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

The company returned to Formula One in [[2001 Formula One season|2001]], supplying the [[Williams F1|Williams]], [[Jaguar Racing|Jaguar]], [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] (renamed [[Renault F1|Renault]] in 2002), [[Prost (racing team)|Prost]] and [[Minardi]] teams. [[Toyota F1|Toyota]] joined F1 in 2002 with Michelin tyres, and [[McLaren]] also signed up with the company.  Michelin Tyres were initially uncompetitive but by the 2005 season were dominant.  This was partly because the new regulations stated that tyres must last the whole race distance (and qualifying), and partly because only one top team (Ferrari) was running Bridgestones, and so had to do much of the development work.  Michelin in contrast had much more testing and race data provided by the larger number of teams running their tyres.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Following the debacle of the [[2005 United States Grand Prix]] where, because of safety concerns, Michelin would not allow the teams it supplied to race, Michelin's share price fell by 2.5% (though it recovered later the same day).  On 28 June, Michelin announced that it would offer compensation to all race fans who had bought tickets for the Grand Prix.  The company committed to refunding the price of all tickets for the race.  Additionally, it announced that it would provide 20,000 complimentary tickets for the 2006 race to spectators who had attended the 2005 event.<ref> BLOUNT, T. (2005, September 23). F1 is treading lightlyAfter debacle at Indy, U.S. Grand Prix hopes fans return in 2006. Dallas Morning News, The (TX), p. 10C. </ref>

Michelin has had a difficult relationship with the sport's governing body (the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]]) since around 2003 and this escalated to apparent disdain between the two parties during the [[2005 Formula One season|2005 season]].  The most high-profile disagreement was at the United States Grand Prix and the acrimony afterwards.  Michelin criticised the FIA's intention to move to a single source (i.e. one brand) tyre from 2008 and threatened to withdraw from the sport.  In a public rebuke, FIA President [[Max Mosley]] wrote: "There are simple arguments for a single tyre, and if [Michelin boss Édouard Michelin] is not aware of this, he shows an almost comical lack of knowledge of modern Formula One."<ref>{{cite web |date=11 September 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4234936.stm |title=FIA hits out in Michelin tyre row |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=26 January 2025 |archive-date=4 November 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104101837/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4234936.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> Another bone of contention has been the reintroduction of tyre changes during pit-stops from 2006. Michelin criticised the move claiming "this event illustrates F1's problems of incoherent decision-making and lack of transparency".<ref>{{cite web |date=28 October 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4385004.stm |title=Michelin attacks new tyre rules |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=26 January 2025 |archive-date=19 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219143008/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4385004.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> 

In December 2005, and as a result of the difficult relationship with the sport's governing body, Michelin announced that it would not extend its involvement in Formula One beyond the 2006 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsonf1.net/2005/news/12/dec14m.htm|title=F1 News - Michelin will not extend its Formula One involvement beyond the 2006 season - Michelin - 14 December 2005|last=((NewsOnF1.com))|website=newsonf1.net|access-date=14 December 2005|archive-date=16 December 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051216112402/http://newsonf1.net/2005/news/12/dec14m.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bridgestone]] was then the sole supplier of tyres to Formula One until the end of the 2010 season, with [[Pirelli]] providing tyres for 2011.

The last race won on Michelin tyres in Formula One was the [[2006 Japanese Grand Prix]], [[Fernando Alonso]] benefitted after the [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] engine of [[Michael Schumacher]] failed during the race.  This gave Michelin a second consecutive [[List of Formula One World Constructors' Champions|Constructors' Championship]] win, with the 2005 and [[2006 Formula One season|2006]], after Bridgestone's seven-year winning streak, and brought to a total of four the number of titles for Michelin since this championship's inception back in the [[1958 Formula One season]]; Michelin's other titles were in the [[1979 Formula One season|1979]], and [[1984 Formula One season|1984 season]]s.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

===Endurance racing===
Michelin is involved in endurance races such as the [[24 Hours of Le Mans]] and the [[American Le Mans Series]]. Involvement in Le Mans began with supplying tyres for the winner of the inaugural [[1923 24 Hours of Le Mans]] as well as nine others of the 33 entrants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Le_Mans-1923-05-27.html|title=Le Mans 24 Hours 1923 - Race Results - Racing Sports Cars|website=www.racingsportscars.com|access-date=12 February 2018|archive-date=12 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212201526/http://www.racingsportscars.com/results/Le_Mans-1923-05-27.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Le Mans, 1923–29: The Official History of the World's Greatest Motor Race|last=Spurring|first=Quentin|isbn=9781910505083|location=Sherborne, Dorset, UK|publisher=Evro Publishing|pages=42, 86|oclc=951812820|date = 15 April 2016}}</ref>  In 2009 Michelin supplied tyres for 41 of the 55 cars that entered in Le Mans.<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Considine | first = Tim | title = Lessons Learned! | journal = [[Road & Track]] | volume = 61 | issue = 7 | page = 86 | date = March 2010}}</ref> In 2016 they provided tyres to the Audi, Porsche and Toyota LMP1 teams, as well as the AF Corse, BMW, Corvette, Ford Ganassi, Porsche and Risi teams in GTE-Pro / GTLM. Beginning in 2019, Michelin will replace Continental as the official tyre of the [[WeatherTech SportsCar Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imsa.com/news/092017/imsa-names-michelin-official-tire-beginning-2019|title=IMSA Names Michelin Official Tire Beginning In 2019|first=Jennifer|last=Klein|date=20 September 2017|website=IMSA|access-date=7 November 2017|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107221635/https://www.imsa.com/news/092017/imsa-names-michelin-official-tire-beginning-2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> Along with supplying tyres for IMSA's top three series, the partnership includes naming rights for the Sports Car Challenge series and the North American Endurance Cup.

Michelin has also supplied tyres in the [[European Le Mans Series]]. They have been the exclusive supplier of the LMP3 class since 2015.

===Rallying===
In the [[World Rally Championship]], Michelin has been the supplier of the Audi, Citroën, Ford, Lancia, Mitsubishi, Peugeot, Toyota and Volkswagen factory teams. Michelin Group brand BFGoodrich represented the brand in 2006 and 2007. The company was absent from 2008 to 2010, when Pirelli was signed as the official supplier, after which they returned to the series as an official supplier from 2011 to 2020 until Pirelli won the tender to once again become an official supplier from 2021 onwards.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}