Goodyear wants to know why its tires failed during the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis.
“What we’re doing right now is gathering all the data we possibly can to try to explain it,” Stu Grant, Goodyear’s general manager for worldwide racing, said Friday at Pocono Raceway, where the Cup cars race this week.
The Allstate 400 at the Brickyard turned into a debacle when the right-side tires provided by Goodyear, the exclusive supplier for all three of NASCAR’s top racing series, wore out so fast that NASCAR had to keep putting out caution flags every 10 or 12 laps.
Grant said Goodyear, which held a tire test at the speedway in April, was mystified.
“Our situation is similar to a lot of what the drivers are telling you in that the results that we saw on Sunday were certainly unexpected,” he said. “We went in there with a proven tire, a known quantity. We didn’t see anything different in our test data from April to indicate a problem.
“We saw nothing [last] Friday that was out of the ordinary. But, obviously, Saturday afternoon, we realized we could have an issue. … We sat down with NASCAR Saturday afternoon and again Sunday morning and we all thought the track would come to us just like it always had and would be fine on race day. But that obviously did not happen.”
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Maybe Brian France could wave his magic wand and make it all go away.
Cannot blame it on Goodyear, blame it on the COT, they are too top heavy, of course when the car goes left it’s going to wear out the right side tires, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out!!!
Funny when they had the Monte Carlo in, things didn’t happen like that, tires wearing out, difficult for the drivers to handle, etc…etc….
BRING THE MONTE CARLO BACK AND ALL THE OTHER CARS NASCAR AND YOU’LL SEE THE DIFFERENCE !!!
Jason wrote:
no matter what everyone wants, the COT is here to stay. And furthermore, Goodyear tested at Indy prior to the race and still didn’t learn.
Minority wrote:
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Explain why Goodyear never had any prior problems before the COT came out, indy anywhere???
I know why being a registered mechanic for 25 years ASE Cerified master auto and diesel…
Jason,
I think thats the dumbest thing I have ever heard, so what ayour saying is because they didnt have problems in the past that a new car is the fault. Then BADYEAR better stop making street tires cause if i get a new model, your telling that the BADYEARS on there might not work cause its new. BADYEAR did the test they ignored the drivers, they just proved how hard it is for them to keep up with an evolving sport as it is for the ford dodge and chevy camps against the toyota. This sport is rapidly changing, its not like nascar pooped up one day adn said guess what new cars, goodyear has been involved in that car every step of the way, and has had test all over it knows the downforce it produces, this is not breaking news to badyear, they just proved how hard it is for them as a company to evlve in a changing enviorment.