Michelin Right2Race 2014 Champ, Off to Le Mans 24 Hours

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Thumbs Up All The Way To Le Mans!

Michelin Right2Race 2014 Overall Champion Ivan Isada (2nd from left), who bested 24 other participants from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines at the 2014 Michelin Pilot Sport Experience (MPSE), gives a victorious thumbs-up sign with his father, former motorsport champion, Vip Isada, prior to take-off for Le Mans, France.

The younger Isada received from Michelin an exclusive all-expense paid trip to France for his MPSE achievement. After a stop-over in Paris and an unforgettable dinner experience at the Michelin 3-star restaurant “Guy Savoy” at La Monnaie de Paris, Ivan and Vip will witness the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hours on June 13-14 at the Circuit De La Sarthe at Le Mans.

Their experience will include a helicopter ride over the track and a private guided tour of the paddock.

Open Access BPO Holds Health Event to Celebrate Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

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Open Access BPO, an outsourcing services provider with call center operations in the Philippines, carries on its tradition of promoting wellness in the workplace by holding a health event on May 27, 2015 to take part in celebrating Cervical Awareness month.

The company partnered with health brands to spread knowledge about the disease and offer free services to its employees in the firm’s Makati office.

Among those companies is GlaxoSmithKline, whose representatives showed a docu-film exploring the effects of cervical cancer to Filipino families.

Also in the venue were representatives of Merck Pharmaceuticals’ Sangobion brand who assisted attendees in doing self-check on the five signs of iron deficiency anemia.

Along with the pharmaceutical companies, Slimmers World was present in the event to give skin treatments, physical consultations, and nutritional counseling to Open Access employees. 

White Flower, on the other hand, simultaneously offered free massage and ear candling services. 

Michelin and Renault Sport Look to the Future of Single-Seater Racing

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Michelin and Renault Sport have joined forces to develop 18- and 17-inch diameter tires for the Formula Renault 3.5 and Formula Renault 2.0 single-seater racing cars. The racing cars star in the WSR (World Series by Renault) that is ongoing up to October 2015. 

The Michelin-Renault partnership began in October 2014 after a positive test at Jerez, Spain, which encouraged the two partners to continue down this road. Today, following further testing, Renault Sport and Michelin have concluded that the replacement of the 13-inch tires that currently equip the WSR’s FR3.5 and FR2.0 cars by 18- and 17-inch tires respectively is a first class solution to make driving even more enjoyable for competitors, including enhanced performance during transient phases. Tires with smaller sidewalls produce less yaw, greater precision and improved steering response. At the same time, the change marks a big step forward in terms of the opportunities it offers when it comes to carrying over technology to Michelin road tires.
Ever since the pioneering days of the sport, motor racing has served as an important testing and development laboratory for technologies that go on to be used for road car tires. Michelin has long adhered to this philosophy and uses all the disciplines in which it is active to collect technical data that its Research and Development experts can dial into new, ever better-performing and increasingly efficient tires. 

The World Series by Renault features two single-seater championships which are reputed for revealing talented upcoming drivers. They are the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, which is open to drivers as young as 16 years old, and the Formula Renault 3.5 Series which stands out as a benchmark series for the grooming of future Formula 1 drivers.