However, Michelin has shown that they are clearly superior to a lot of other tire manufacturers (including Goodyear) in ALMS. Simply bolting on Michelins will make the car two seconds faster than if it was on Goodyears.

The American Racers I’ve used have been decent… just slow to come up to temp.

Michelin would embarrass Goodyear, just like they did in ALMS/Le Mans. They screwed up in Indy once… but I doubt that’ll happen again. The only manufacturer to ever be on par with Michelin is Bridgestone. Michelin has easily outperformed Pirelli, Yokohama, Goodyear, Kumho, Avon/Cooper, and many others.

out with good year, in with michelin.

People are already Xenophobic about a Japanese automaker coming into the sport, and now you want to bring in a French tire (or as the French spell Tyre) maker into the sport….. l0l BTW Fun fact, the companies full name is “Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin” I’d like to see Tony try and say that…. l0l. Not to mention their little Fiasco at the USGP a few years ago

What about Cooper Tire & Rubber, the make A1, Champ Car Atlantic, and Drifting tires?

As long as its not American Racers, those things can’t even last 25 laps on 3/8th mile short track.

out with good year, in with michelin.

Here is my take on the whole situation, Brian France wanted the races to last longer. Longer races means more commercials and that means more money. Also the old car was too fast for his plan so they built a slower car and made the teams use it.[/quote

you must really be in love with Brian , in all your posts on every topic that’s all it is is Brian and his money . jeez NASCAR doest revolve around Brian , theirs Lesa and Jim France too and a board of directors. you make it sound like Brian makes all the decisions, well he dont.

I heard that during the press conference him and Jr both ripped Goodyear a new one.

But its not like its a Goodyear specific problem. Put Hoosiers on these cars and you will have the same problems, No race tire is perfect, and no race tire will ever be perfect.

And the last thing we need is another tire war, that did nothing but almost destroy the sport.

Of course no race tire is perfect, but these tires are way beyond perfect. Those cars were all over the place and seeing how many cars were a lap down shows how bad these cars were handling. Overall this was probably the most boring race thus far and I’m a Gibbs fan.

I heard that during the press conference him and Jr both ripped Goodyear a new one.

But its not like its a Goodyear specific problem. Put Hoosiers on these cars and you will have the same problems, No race tire is perfect, and no race tire will ever be perfect.

But in this case it is a Goodyear problem since they are the sole maker of tires for Cup.

We may never know if another manufactor could do better since Goodyear has a lock on this deal.

But its not like its a Goodyear specific problem. Put Hoosiers on these cars and you will have the same problems, No race tire is perfect, and no race tire will ever be perfect.

And the last thing we need is another tire war, that did nothing but almost destroy the sport.

The ONLY reason he is crying about this is because he is not winning and he needs something to blame it on, and Coach Gibbs told him he can’t blame it on Toyota.

I give it 2 or 3 more races till Smoke is ticked off at Kyle because of how Good Kyle is doing compared to how Tony is running.