Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Year 1 of the Nascar "Next Gen" car and its 18-inch wheels begins with tire problems across the teams

In the first playoff race in the NASCAR Cup Series, Texas Motor Speedway will go down as a memorable race for a lot of reasons. 

For starters, it lasted a record time of 4 hours and 21 minutes because of a record 16 cautions.

Those record-setting cautions were the result of massive tire issues that were unfortunately reminiscent of NASCAR’s disastrous 2008 race at Indianapolis.

“Yeah, the tires,” second-place finisher Joey Logano said. “If they aren’t blowing out then they are square. They were shaking like crazy.”

Nascar tires are not cheap. Each set runs around $2,000, and teams can burn through 10 sets per car just about every weekend on ovals.

Goodyear pays NASCAR to not compete with Firestone, Pirelli, or other racing tire manufacturers

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