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It's the Tires! Fix the Tires!

I think this comment puts Sundays race into perspective. I agree with him but lets think for a moment. The drivers get paid pretty good money for driving the cars so it's up to them to make it work but it is up to NASCAR to make sure the equipment can provide good racing.


Crew chief Chad Knaus aimed the blame for Sunday's uncompetitive effort at a different target.

"You know, I think that's where everybody's wrong. It's not the tire, it's the car," Knaus said. "It's just the car. The car asks too much out of the tire. There's only five things that hold the car on the racetrack: That's the four tires and the downforce.

"The car has no downforce and Goodyear has to build an extremely hard tire just to make the tire live because there's no downforce on the car. That makes everybody bad-mouth Goodyear and it's just not fair to them, because Goodyear actually does a very good job."

posted by Jay @ 7:24 AM