BFGoodrich completed their debut season in 🌊the FIA World Rally Champꦓionship in real style on the Rally GB on Sunday, taking their win total for the year to a perfect 16 from 16.

Indeed, while admittedly BFGoodrich supplied five of the six manu⛦facturer teams, they were never really troubled by Pirelli and Subaru and thanks to the efforts of Kronos Citroen's Sebastien Loeb and BP Ford duo Marcus Gronholm and Mikko Hirvonen, the Michelin-owned brand managed to ཧtake P1 on every single event.

Speaking following the conclusion of the season in Wales, Michelin Group Competition director, Frederic Henry-Biabaud, hailed the efforts of those involved, including Aime Chatard, who will retire fr𒈔om his position as rally manager at the end of thisꦗ year. Matthieu Bonardel will take over at the helm at BFGoodrich next season.

"2006 has been a very successful year for BFGoodrich," he noted. "The firm has invested considerably in the WRC with a view to expanding its brand awareness in Europe. Our two titles and the historic clean sweep we have achieved this year have helped increase the brand's spontaneous and prompted awareness and the firm is looking to improve these figures further ꦕstill by its continued presence in the WRC.

"I believe our success stems from the continuing rigorous and pro♏fessional approach of our 🐭engineers, technicians and fitters.

"Our products have evolved considerably in the course of the season and we have endeavoured to make them increasingly versatile in order to cover the wide variety conditions often encountered on events. Even when tyre choices have been extremely delicate, our tyres have aওlways been a match for the situation without compromising any of their performance and durability.

"Finally, ꧑I would like to thank all our partner-teams and drivers who have given us this opportunity to showcase the added value of our competition ra✤nge which directly benefits BFGoodrich's road tyres like the g-Force Profiler."