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The 2024 Michelin Pilot Challenge was the twenty-fifth season of the IMSA SportsCar Challenge and the eleventh season organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). The season began on January 26 at Daytona International Speedway and concluded on October 11 at Road Atlanta .
The Michelin Pilot Challenge is a grand touring and touring car racing series run by the International Motor Sports Association. Originating from the Canadian Motorola Cup , the series was taken over by Grand-Am in 2001 to become the Grand-Am Cup following the demise of rival IMSA 's Firehawk series of similar rules in the US.
Michelin (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ əl ɪ n, ˈ m ɪ tʃ əl ɪ n / MISH-əl-in, MITCH-əl-in, French:), in full Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA ("General Company of the Michelin Enterprises P.L.S."), is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France.
The 2019 Michelin Pilot Challenge is the twentieth season of the IMSA SportsCar Challenge and the sixth season organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA). Michelin is set to become the new official tire supplier of the series, following the departure of Continental Tire at the end of 2018.
M6 is the head channel of the M6 Group media empire [4] that owns several TV channels, magazines, publications, movie production companies, and media-related firms. It is owned by RTL Group . On 20 May 2021, it was announced that M6 Group, owners of the channel, has proposed a merger with TF1 Group , which owns competing commercial network TF1 ...
At the same time, Prix d'Aviation Michelin was a special prize of 100,000 francs offered for a flight by an aircraft carrying a passenger, taking off from either the department of Seine or Seine-et-Oise, flying over the Arc de Triomphe and the cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand, and landing on the summit of the 1,456 m (4,777 ft) Puy de Dôme inside ...
François Michelin was born on 15 June 1926 in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France. [1] [2] His grandfather, Édouard Michelin, was the founder of Michelin, when it was known as Michelin & Cie. [2] [3] His father was Étienne Michelin and his mother, Madeleine Callies. [3] He became an orphan at the age of ten. [4]
In 1900, André Michelin published the first Michelin Guide, the purpose of which was to promote tourism by car, thereby supporting his tyre manufacturing operation. In 1886, 33-year-old André Michelin abandoned his career as a successful Parisian engineer to take over his grandfather's failing agricultural goods and farm equipment business.