Goodyear FIA ETRC (European Truck Racing Championship) 2026 Season Set To Begin
The Goodyear FIA ETRC (European Truck Racing Championship) is set to begin the 2026 season with further progress on tyre sustainability and the introduction of a new fan‑engagement initiative.
For the 2026 season, Goodyear will introduce a new truck racing tyre incorporating 60% sustainable materials1, up from 55% in the previous season. This reflects Goodyear’s ongoing commitment with the FIA to improve tire sustainability year after year in top‑level truck racing. Based on Goodyear’s internal sustainability classification framework, a tyire incorporating 60% or more sustainable materials is assigned a two-leaf rating (with one leaf assigned to tyres below this threshold).
In addition to this technical development, Goodyear will introduce the Wingfoot Award in the Goodyear FIA ETRC. One Wingfoot Award will be presented at each race event during the 2026 season. The award will recognize a driver selected by fans. The Wingfoot Award is designed to further engage fans throughout the season while highlighting performances and moments that reflect the values of the championship.
FIA Truck Racing Commission President Ignacio Fernandez said: “We are delighted to be working so closely with Goodyear, not only as a valued title partner and supplier, but as an organisation with sustainability at its heart. To be able to count on a tyre that incorporates 60 percent sustainable materials and has been designed to meet the requirement of a single tyre type, able to perform consistently across a wide range of circuits and weather conditions, and one with improved durability to reduce tyre use without performance being compromised, is very significant for the Goodyear FIA ETRC and motorsport as a whole.”
“Truck racing continues to be an important development platform for Goodyear,” said Xavier Fraipont, Vice President, Global Racing, at Goodyear. “The Goodyear FIA ETRC’s learnings are translated from competition into tyre technologies that support greater efficiency and sustainability for commercial truck fleets operating on the road every day.”
Goodyear has been involved in European truck racing for more than two decades and has served as title sponsor of the Goodyear FIA ETRC since 2022.
Sustainability efforts within the Goodyear FIA ETRC also include the retreading of race‑used tyres, which are processed in Goodyear factories in Europe and reintroduced into commercial service, supporting a circular use of resources from the racetrack to the road.
The Goodyear FIA ETRC 2026 season gets underway at Misano, Italy, on May 30–31.
[1] Goodyear defines sustainable material as a bio-based (defined as material of biological origin (Source: ISO 14021)); renewable; or recycled (defined as material that has been reprocessed from recovered [reclaimed] material (Source: ISO 14021)) material; or one produced using or contributing to other practices designed to promote resource conservation and/or emissions reductions, including ISCC PLUS mass-balance (defined as a certification verifying our capability to track the amount and sustainability characteristics of circular and/or bio-based material in the value chain and attribute it based on verifiable bookkeeping (Source: www.iscc-system.org/certification/chain-of-custody/mass-balance/)) material.
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