2014 NASCAR Thread

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Adamgp
Exactly. Teams get aggressive with the setups, with tire pressure, camber, etc. trying to find more speed. Add to that the higher speeds this year, and a aero package that makes car tight, putting big loads on the right front.
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It wouldn't mean a damn thing if the quote below is true.

GTPorsche
Possibly a recapped tire Junior said.

If true, Goodyear is being completely reckless.
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It was not a re cap or retread. Jr's comment was a joke and if it were a recap he'd have no idea how to tell. Aggressive setup or not, these tires are under par for these cars. What was the pit window? Brand new tire to garbage in how many laps? Johnson had a tire unwind earlier this year as well. It's the wrong tire for the car.
 
New tires shouldn't be unwinding the tread from the cord.

Like I said previously, it's either teams running them on the wrong side of the car, or Goodyear botching the manufacture process. It's not air pressure because it's happening too late in tire stints for air pressure to affect it.

Jimmie's tire issues at New Hampshire was a bad setup on the car since those tires unwound within 5 laps.
 
It's all under Goodyear's control. Whatever tire Goodyear decides to bring to the track is what they are going to run. I doubt it's a manufacturing defect. The tires are not capable of surviving the car. Need a better tire plain and simple.
 
It would be near impossible for all the cars to have an issue. It would also be near impossible for the teams to put the tires on the wrong side. That's Goodyear's call. Manufacturing defects is also Goodyear's problem. Aggressive setup that the tires can't handle? Team and Goodyear's problem. All really comes down to Goodyear tires.

Goodyear is having a...

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One more thing. How many Nationwide guys had tire problems this weekend?
 
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Johnny1996
I'm pretty sure that you don't have to be so aggressive.
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I asked a question and your boy replied like a smug kid with no real info but trying to make it personal. I'm not an internet noob. I'm as much qualified to post as anyone. I did not watch the Nationwide race. Wanted to know how many tire failures there were. Passive aggressiveness is a second language to me. Google did not tell me how many tire failures their were in the Nationwide race.

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Blood Eagle
Thanks for the info, boss. You are a smug little boy.
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Blood Eagle
I asked a question and your boy replied like a smug kid with no real info but trying to make it personal. I'm not an internet noob. I'm as much qualified to post as anyone. I did not watch the Nationwide race. Wanted to know how many tire failures there were. Passive aggressiveness is a second language to me. Google did not tell me how many tire failures their were in the Nationwide race.

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Johnny1996
Guys, if we could get back to NASCAR instead of pro wrestling that'd be nice.
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Basically what I'm trying to say is, if tires weren't a problem in the Nationwide race, is a manufacturing defect or are the cup cars too fast for the tire aka tire inadequacy? I'm not comparing a Cup car to a Nationwide car. They are very similar though. There is something there. Hope I didn't offend anyone for posting twice in the past couple minutes.....
 
Google Fu for Kansas.


Goodyear Tires Notes / Fast Facts
  • Tire: Goodyear Eagle Speedway Radials:

    Set limits:
    Sprint Cup: 5 sets for practice/qualifying and 10 sets for the race;
    Nationwide: 6 sets for the event

    Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-4604; Right-side -- D-4586

    Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 87.52 in. (2,223 mm); Right-side -- 88.70 in. (2,253 mm)

    Technical Inspection Inflation:
    Left Front -- 30 psi; Left Rear -- 30 psi;
    Right Front -- 55 psi; Right Rear -- 50 psi

    Minimum Recommended Inflation:
    Left Front -- 30 psi; Left Rear -- 30 psi
    ; Right Front -- 54 psi; Right Rear -- 50 psi

    Notes: Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same combination of left- and right-side tires at Kansas this weekend . . . this is the same tire set-up Sprint Cup teams ran at this track in May . . . this combination came out of a Goodyear tire test at Kansas on April 14 . . . in Sprint Cup, teams have also run this right-side tire code (D-4586) twice at Michigan this season . . . in Nationwide, teams have run this left-side tire code (D-4604) at their only stop at Michigan in June . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Kansas . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.
 
Time for my weekly Racing-Reference check. And sure enough, the long streak o' free passes continues again.

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237 239 3 #5 accident backstretch #10
 
I wonder if they'll rip off ticket holders for the series in the same way that Comcast rips off its customers. (I don't have Comcast, but my friends who do hate it and want something else.)
 

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