Mere hours after his win at Bristol, Denny Hamlin unpacks what may have led to the excessive tire wear in the NASCAR Cup Series race. He explains how various elements can contribute to tire wear as he tries to determine if it was the track conditions or the tire compound that caused such extreme tire wear. Either way, he’s here for it.
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2:32 That's wrong. That set that Goodyear mounted for all the teams during the race was from last years batch and it wore exactly the same as this years batch.
Tyres have an optimum operating temperature, F1 had a similar problem in Qatar last year but with too much heat and a limit on the number of laps for safety culminating in a flat out sprint race style, not enough heat could cause excessive wear due to the compound not getting above the minimum temperature.
The core racing wasn’t enhanced whatsoever by this. This is a crutch to artificially stimulate interesting narratives on the track without actually improving the performance and quality of racing. Cautions, pit stops and strategy was the o my thing which made the racing appear to be exciting. This isn’t an improvement to the actual on track racing. The truth is it was no less boring then any other event. Fans are easily distracted and titillated by something different or dramatic. Most have been conditioned to think this is a viable solution due to the constant narrative by guys like Denny whom the listen to weekly. Denny liked it not only because he benefited from it, but because the approval validated his calls for this delusion. He also liked it because Toyota has a current and blatantly obvious aero advantage thanks to a redesign while Chevy sat idle. This aero advantage has a direct impact on tire savings. That’s just a fact. Over aggressive tire fall off will eventually ruin the racing. Teams and drivers will quickly adapt reducing the recent effects. The lead changes will be artificial as drivers constantly yield for conservation (not real racing). Drivers will be overly conservative and the most talented drivers will be leashed allowing the less talented old school drivers whom aren’t as good up on the wheel to compete. You’ll see races won based on pit strategy and not based on the track action or driver talent. We watched the delusion ruin racing on dirt as slick tracks picks up in popularity destroying the racing. The erroneous and false perception that the better drivers shine in the slick was proven false.
Core racing was absolutely dog shιτ unless some random drama happened. Racing still sucked.
how nascar not know this was going to happen, you would think nascar would have a car go out the week before and make laps with these cars before the teams get there to see if tires were good, tires havent been rubbering up since the 90's, NASCAR dropped the bomb on this.
did the trucks tires wear like this.
Good explination. Good finish.
It’s all about heat. To make tires do what they do. Not enough heat build up to make the rubber react.
Congrats from VA💚
Does the resin react to rubber and damage rubber? Why didn’t the rubber lay down on the rest of the track? Could the chems in resin be the issue? Or do you think someone messed up the chems in rubber? Anyway it happened it was a great race for me. IDW tires blowing but wearing down faster is great.
But WHY won’t the rubber lay down on the rest of the track? Maybe not on the resin but the rest of the track was NOT taking rubber. Or is the track older and the concrete is not as course?
But it could be the resin! If the chemicals in the resign broke down rubber. Running the corners your tires were constantly over the resin so could A chemical in the resin damage or coat the rubber? 🤷🏼♀️
The extra tires you all got were made before the batch y’all had
The concrete could be the X factor? Maybe concrete lost all its groves? Or whatever happens to concrete? And correct group A had a better run
And it was a great race!
It has to be related to the Resin. Resin is the only variable that has not been tested in the experiment (race on this tire in this car)
I was at the track both days. There was rubber dust covering the track against the wall in all 4 turns…… the track was clearly not taking rubber. The track was shredding tires and just throwing it all to the top.
Denny beat off your favorite driver!!!
Goodyear needs to hire Walter White and Jesse Pinkman to make their tires.
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