TMS’s Gossage calls for more tire testing before Texas race
Quote selected text Published March 11th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Texas Motor Speedway officials say Goodyear will use effectively the same tire compound in the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the track that it used a year ago.
“I called Goodyear, and they told us they never planned to use the same tire they used in Atlanta for our upcoming race,” Gossage said. “The tire they will use for the Samsung 500 will be effectively the same tire they used in Texas last year, and those two races resulted in a last-lap pass in April and a side-by-side duel for the lead down to the finish in November. Both the left-side and right-side tires will effectively use the same compound as in 2007, but with a slightly different construction for the new car. The engineers feel quite good about their plans.”
“I reiterated to Goodyear, just as I did to NASCAR last week, that while we’re glad to hear the news [about the tires], we would prefer another test before the race,” Gossage said. “Failing that, we would encourage NASCAR to add practice time to the race weekend schedule to give teams a bit more time to get comfortable with this new car and tire combination. We hope after the Atlanta race that they will see the wisdom behind our suggestion.”
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His words are falling on deaf ears, Nascar and Goodyear have already made their minds up.
we’ll see
Gossage gave us more factual information about tires in two sentences than Goodyear and NASCAR have given us the entire season.
A brief summary if you missed anything-
Tony says: “Goodyear’s tires suck and no one else wants them.”
Goodyear says: “Our tires are safe, mkay.”
NASCAR says: “Tony, calm down. Goodyear feeds us a lot of money.”
to be continued…
Axel Foley wrote:
Lol. Made me laugh, thanks alot.
Axel Foley wrote:
Haha sooooo true. That just about sums up where we are today.
Goodyear needs to get it together. They need to show up at each track with certainty and confidence, instead of treating race weekends like crap shoots.
Axel Foley wrote:
After “Tony says”, you forgot to add: “SEVERAL DRIVERS IN THE GARAGE AGREE WITH TONY”
Excuse me. Tony, Junior, Kyle, Jarrett and others yet to be announced… lol.
As a great stooge once said,” Moe, Larry, the cheese.”
Axel Foley wrote:
Dude you hit on the nail on the coffin!! LMAO!!!