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All race cars competing in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) since late 2008 have used Dunlop tires embedded with RFID tags to track the usage of those tires by the team, thereby helping track which tires, and how many, were used—without requiring the car to stop. This deployment follows an initial pilot of the system during a race in 2008.

The BTCC, a car-racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, was established in 1958. The use of tires in the race is monitored to ensure that no team takes an unfair advantage by having more or better tires than another. Until 2008, the tires were tracked using a bar-code system provided by software company Datalinx, says Melvin Fletcher, the company's director.

The RFID-based tire-tracking system was developed by a collaborative group, including The BTCC, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Goodyear Innovation Center in Luxembourg, Dunlop Tyres—a British firm owned by Goodyear—and Datalinx. The tags not only enable the BTCC to electronically regulate tire usage during races, they can also be used to track when the teams stop for maintenance, thereby allowing the race organizer to make information available online to the media and fans regarding the vehicles and the tires they use.

Read the full story at rfidjournal.com.

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