Today, Mickey Thompson has product wholesalers in excess of 60 nations and a huge number of seller areas worldwide. The organization additionally upholds many hustling endorsing bodies addressing racing, short-course rough terrain racing, vintage funny vehicle and bike racing classes. Cooper Tire and Rubber Co’s. acquisition of the organization in 2003 has upgraded item development and development openings.
Ohio Based Company
Founded by the incredible Mickey Thompson and companion Gene McMannis in 1963, Mickey Thompson Performance Tires and Wheels completed 50 years of advancement and innovation in 2013.
History and Developments
Thompson and McMannis began with a visionary method to configure, assemble, and test elite tires – a heritage that stays the organization’s foundation today.
“This is a mind-blowing achievement for our organization,” said Ken Warner, VP of deals and advertising, Mickey Thompson. “We need to commend this accomplishment and remember this commemoration by respecting both our set of experiences and the fate of our organization.”
In 1963, the organization started with the advancement of another open-wheel hustling tire with a milder compound and a lower profile, giving racers a lower focus of gravity and more prominent soundness, and afterward offered a 12-inch wheel to supplement the tire. A 15-inch tire and wheel blend were added the next year, and Mickey Thompson turned into the main tire organization to offer 50-, 60-and 70-series “Indy Profile” tires.
During the ’70s, the ET Drag tires for the strip were presented, and the organization extended innovative work endeavours to incorporate tires for the Thompson-established SCORE rough terrain and Mickey Thompson arena short-course dashing series. Thompson utilized the uniquely planned truck tires in 1982 to win the Baja 1000 and set another record time for the occasion.
The organization presented the Sportsman tire in 1982, the most stretched out elite road legitimate tire at any point made, and in 1991, the Sportsman Pro tire was dispatched. With its uncommonly planned track, interesting “hot and tacky” drag tire compound and adaptable flaw divider development, the Sportsman Pro gave Pro Street racers a lawful road tire that could be utilized for racing. The tire was enlisted into the Hot Rod Magazine Speed Parts Hall of Fame in 2011.
Development in the 21st Century
In the early 2000s, item advancement presented an assorted gathering of the truck and off-road spiral tires, just as a full scope of wheels. In 2008, the organization presented the Pro-5 Drag wheel offering the lightest useful weight and the best strength accessible from any aluminum wheel today. In quite a long while alone, Mickey Thompson has presented various new tires and wheels for road, strip, truck, rough terrain and cruiser, including a few honour champs.
Status Today
Today, Mickey Thompson has item wholesalers in excess of 60 nations and a large number of seller areas worldwide. Likewise, the organization upholds many dashing endorsing bodies addressing racing, short-course rough terrain hustling, funny vehicles, and cruiser racing classifications.
THE MICKEY THOMPSON LEGEND
American engine hustling legend and trend-setter Mickey Thompson gave tire configuration no restrictions. His tire organization has been a forerunner in tire development since 1963. It is presently referred to worldwide as an innovator in superior 4×4 tires and wheels for the track and rough terrain.
Racing Heritage
Dominating races in record times roused Mickey Thompson’s advancements in tire plan. He planned the tires that made him the quickest man on earth by going at 406.6 mph (650.6 kph); set a record time to win the most tiresome rough terrain race of all the Baja 1000 and proceed to set 485 speed and perseverance records, more than any man on the planet.
Developments
Mickey Thompson advocated numerous firsts in tires. Sidebiters, track running down the sidewall of a tire; a rough terrain 4×4 tire with a directional track design at 23 degrees; and Kevlar-belted 4×4 tires are on the whole unique Mickey Thompson advancements. Today, Mickey Thompson Tires keep on being an innovator in tire development. The most recent? PowerPly is a carcass development that gives a tire quicker reaction.
Tread
Regardless of whether you grime around in the mud, play unpleasant on rocks, or slam around the hedge, Mickey Thompson Tires has a track plan for each application.
Carcass
It’s the tire’s carcass always keeping everything together, the stuff you can’t see inside. It’s these remarkable developments to guarantee you get the extra strength and execution, lessening the shot at tire harm.
COMPOUND
The right compound has a significant effect, and one of the latest advances in tire innovation is a remarkable way Mickey Thompson Tires compound their elastic.
BRAND VALUES
Since 1963, Mickey Thompson Tires has consistently been an Enthusiast Brand. Mickey Thompson assembled his items to WIN—he constructed them from need. We hold quick to Mickey’s qualities, his persistent drive for quicker—better.
Guiding principle
The fundamental beliefs are the core values that direct conduct and activity at Mickey Thompson.
- They were brought into the world on the track and have never left.
- They view Mickey’s heritage in a serious way, and they keep on building record-breaking items.
- They esteem the unwavering spirit of lovers who proceed to WIN and experience their items.
- They are focused on building the BEST items for Street, Strip and Off-Road.
- They never stop, they are rarely fulfilled, they generally Remain ON THE GAS.
ESSENCE
The focal trademark action at Mickey Thompson is planning and building imaginative execution items for car lovers.