If Goodyear were to leave NASCAR, the executive director of Firestone Racing says his company would be interested. Goodyear is NASCAR’s exclusive supplier through 2012.
“There’s a lot of people in our organization that would love to be running NASCAR,” Firestone’s Al Speyer says. “Our engineers can do a very good job there.”
Although Firestone has been the exclusive supplier of Indy car racing for several years, stock cars are part of its history. Speyer says the company won many races in NASCAR’s first decade (1948-58) before leaving the sport in the late 1960s.
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Fisha695 wrote:
1. Goodyear is not going to leave, they are way to big of a company to just leave.
2. If Goodyear Leaves you are not interested?
3. Every tire company in the world is interested if Goodyear leaves.
4. Indycar Tires are not the best racing tires out there…..
They made tires very comparable to Goodyear many years ago. I believe they were always a little softer than the Goodyears at that time. Pretty decent. However, tire technology has changed so much since then, I wonder what they could come up with. They would have to be the sole supplier because we don’t want those stupid tire wars again. A.J. Foyt doesn’t like the ’stones but he’s always been a little hard to please. Tony is mad at Goodyear and likes Hoosiers. So who really knows what the future holds? Like Fisha said, every tire manufacturer should be interested.