"NASCAR and Goodyear officials had a long conference call Tuesday morning to begin assessing what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again.
“We've already got after it, and we're moving forward with a plan to get ahead of the situation so we don't go through this again,” Pemberton said.
“We're still working on it. We're trying to find out what was different, if anything, but everybody's pointing toward the fact that the rubber looked to be a little bit drier or a little bit dustier look. So we're going to look into it and find out, you know, exactly what it is.”
Goodyear officials say the right-side tires, which caused the problems at Indy, were made from the same tread compound as the tires used in the same race a year ago. But unlike last year, Sunday’s race used the COT." As stolen from That's Racing.com
“We've already got after it, and we're moving forward with a plan to get ahead of the situation so we don't go through this again,” Pemberton said.
“We're still working on it. We're trying to find out what was different, if anything, but everybody's pointing toward the fact that the rubber looked to be a little bit drier or a little bit dustier look. So we're going to look into it and find out, you know, exactly what it is.”
Goodyear officials say the right-side tires, which caused the problems at Indy, were made from the same tread compound as the tires used in the same race a year ago. But unlike last year, Sunday’s race used the COT." As stolen from That's Racing.com
Seems to me that the Goodyear people would have thought about the difference between last year and this year...LAST FUCKIN YEAR!!! Give me a break, are you trying to tell me that NO ONE remembered that last year they ran the "old style" car and this year they were running the new car??? How many years of college did it take for them to figure it out??? One would think that after knowing they were NOT running the old style any more that you WOULDN'T use the same tires. WHY??? Cause it isn't the same fucking car. The center of roll is different, the set ups are different, the height of the car is different as is the width and even the suspension packages are different, even where the driver is located is different. So what pencil pushing geek forgot to figure ALL that into the mix??? The same one who probably thought: "Let's save us some money and use the stuff we have left over from last year"!!! DUH!!! Then again what would I know about tires anyways???
I guess you could say it made for a great 40 segement 10 lap shoot-out. I think that when Stewie blasted Goodyear before for shit tires that they would have at least listened or tried to use a little common sense when "assuming" what would work this year. Oh that's right when you assume you make an "ass outta ume", or in this case NASCAR and Goodyear. Which anymore isn't really all that hard.
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Well nobody ever said the people that run NASCAR are geniuses. And by golly they just keep proving that fact now don't they?
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