Again, clearly you would know more about it sitting on the couch drinking a beer and watching the race, than the guy who drove the car or the crew that set up the car. Jimmie himself said what caused it, pushing too hard and wearing it out/heating it up.
In the end, who the heck cares. The tire blew, he smacked the wall, he didn't win. I'm not sure what you are trying to prove by playing Monday morning armchair crew chief.
If the camber was too much you would think a team of that caliber would have noticed that earlier in the race, or in practice. They have tire guys that analyze each tire after it comes off the car.
The left side tires were far from new, and anyways it was the right front that blew. Again, that came straight from the horses mouth as well.
He pushed it too hard, heated it up/wore it out trying to get through lapped traffic and run down Biffle., and it blew.
Camber issues don't suddenly pop up after 494 miles of racing. They're either there from the start and causing issues or they're not there at all.
Do you really expect JJ to say "That idiot Chad Knaus obviously put way too much camber in the front end, and it caused us to give away a certain top 3 finish!"
Saying something like, "I was just trying too hard, and it caused my brand new left side tire to prematurely fail" sounds better, even if it flies in the face of all logic, since other cars went 100+ laps on left sides without any issues.
“We cut a right-front tire there at the end, I guess (from) just running that hard trying to get through traffic and get to the No. 16 (of Biffle), we wore through the right-front,” -Johnson said.
Yet you still avoid the valid points made and go back to the rhetoric that we all are arm chair beer drinkers (speak for yourself). The fact that you think the driver is infallible about what happened, as well as not stop to think that some of us here are engineers, racers, mechanics, etc and thus have no idea how that stuff works, is ignorant.
Also I tend to care when people skew the facts run with ****.
Also his tires were far more new than you give credit because as I said his pit strategy was four tire stops while others were opting for two.
You can't change camber during the race, it's not that simple also yet again, JJ wasn't even sure what happened. Here is his exact quote since you obviously can't provide stuff. Either way GTPorsche and Ryan are correct as well about the tire stuff..
I read from Speed Channel's bottom line that there will be group qualifying for the race at Sonoma. It will be interesting to see how qualifying will be with this format as opposed to the hot lap format for road courses. More info on the group qualifying format for road courses:
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...sprint-cup-road-course-qualifying-format.html
Again- this will be a great weekend if you love road racing and NASCAR. Nationwide at Road America and Cup at Sonoma.
Müle;8585073Does Crappy Tire even have stores in America? lol
No qualifying today? "Qualifying" is not in my guide, just 2 practice sessions.
AND A FEW PAINT SCHEMES!
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Marcos Ambrose: #9 Stanley (Notice the new paint scheme/logo)
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Justin Marks: #7 GoPro
Danica Patrick & Clint Bowyer expect respect from Mr. Villeneuvehttp://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...y-sprint-cup-series-toyota-save-mart-350.html
My friend called me last night. He is up at Road America and will be working safety crew for the Nationwide race.
Was the Nationwide race rained out?