Hutchinson returns to the World Tour as official technical partner of the Intermarché – Wanty team

As Official Technical Partner, Hutchinson will equip the riders of the World Tour Intermarché-Wanty team as well as the U23 team with its tires. route the most advanced. Designed to meet the demands of professional cycling, these tires will offer athletes performance, grip and durability to face racing conditions.

Source: press release – Photos: Alessandro Volders / @cyclingmedia_agency

Whether it's the cobblestones of the Classics or the climbs of the Grand Tours, riders will have equipment designed to maximize their performance in every race scenario.

This partnership goes beyond competition days. Hutchinson and Intermarché-Wanty already collaborate closely on research projects and
development, placing innovation at the heart of their alliance. Feedback from riders, directly from racing conditions, will play a key role in optimizing and creating the next generations of tires route Hutchinson.

The technological collaboration between Hutchinson and Intermarché-Wanty has already borne its first fruits, with prototypes of new-generation tires currently testby the team's riders.

These models embody Hutchinson's expertise in manufacturing high-performance tires. These advances, including evolutions of the iconic Blackbird model, will make their first unofficial appearance at the Tour Down Under before gradually becoming accessible to cyclists around the world.

Intermarché-Wanty has established itself as a dynamic team, accumulating remarkable victories and podiums in WorldTour events in recent seasons, notably with Biniam Girmay, one of the world's best sprinters. The team sees this partnership with Hutchinson as a strategic lever to reach new heights in 2025.

Mikey van Kruiningen, Head of Materials & Equipment Intermarché-Wanty: “When we switched to tubeless tires a few years ago, as one of the first teams, we got a head starttage significant in terms of speed. Now that all the teams are riding tubeless, we were looking for a way to get back on tracktagand technological.
With Hutchinson we have found a new partner willing to work with us on a tire that offers good grip, which has so far been the heel
Achilles heel of the tubeless system, especially on wet ground. Drawing on the knowledge gained during the development of the Blackbird tire, we are now developing new Hutchinson Racing Lab tubeless tires together. These new, rather wide tires will combine exceptional lightness with optimum rolling resistance and exceptional grip – our riders don't call them "MotoGP tires" for nothing.

We started very early tests intensive prototypes, both in mytagand on the cobblestones, with excellent results. We are very pleased with this new partnership with Hutchinson and with all our equipment for 2025. The equipment that Intermarché-Wanty riders race with is of absolutely impeccable quality, and we continue to work on improvements constantly, in close collaboration with all our technical partners.

This partnership builds on Hutchinson’s rich track record at the highest level of professional cycling, with numerous stage and overall victories in the Tour de France over the brand’s 170-year history. By reconnecting with the World Tour alongside Intermarché – Wanty, Hutchinson reaffirms its commitment to the quest for performance.

“We are proud to collaborate with Intermarché-Wanty, a team that embodies resilience, ambition and technical excellence on the world stage,” said Sylvie Woroniecki, Communications Manager at Hutchinson Cycling. "Their constant quest for performance and their thirst for victory at the highest level will help to push the development of our products even further. This strategic partnership will enable us to develop even more efficient pneumatic solutions, with major new products resulting from this collaboration that will see the light of day in 2025."

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