Comments on: What’s The Bigger Story… Tires or Toyota? http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132 Home of the FREE Stock Car Gazette E-zine Mon, 14 May 2012 01:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chuck Abrams http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132/comment-page-1#comment-170325 Chuck Abrams Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:35:39 +0000 http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132#comment-170325 On This Week IN NASCAR, Chad Knaus said HE thinks this issue is more about the cars than tires. He maintains that the new cars have 30% less downforce and thhus have created the problem. That plus the bump stops that don't allow the car, especially the right front, to slowly shift weight. Instead, the shock and spring package that NASCAR mandates means the car goes from one position to banging down suddenly onto the bump stops. So the car goes from tight to loose very quickly as the drivers tries to react or anticipate when the right front will roll over and BANG hit the bump stop. BTW, Mikey hates the bump stops and says they should be outlawed. But to all your points, Goodyear and NASCAR have done a horrible job of communicating and making a tire AND a car that will do all that was promised. GY has made a tire that is so hard that it slides AND then grinds away causing it to blow at Vegas but hold up at Atlanta. But Atlanta was so bad no one would race side by side for fear of losing control on the slick tires. On This Week IN NASCAR, Chad Knaus said HE thinks this issue is more about the cars than tires. He maintains that the new cars have 30% less downforce and thhus have created the problem. That plus the bump stops that don’t allow the car, especially the right front, to slowly shift weight. Instead, the shock and spring package that NASCAR mandates means the car goes from one position to banging down suddenly onto the bump stops. So the car goes from tight to loose very quickly as the drivers tries to react or anticipate when the right front will roll over and BANG hit the bump stop. BTW, Mikey hates the bump stops and says they should be outlawed.

But to all your points, Goodyear and NASCAR have done a horrible job of communicating and making a tire AND a car that will do all that was promised. GY has made a tire that is so hard that it slides AND then grinds away causing it to blow at Vegas but hold up at Atlanta. But Atlanta was so bad no one would race side by side for fear of losing control on the slick tires.

]]> By: Margo L http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132/comment-page-1#comment-170151 Margo L Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:00:20 +0000 http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132#comment-170151 Actually , while Mikey really is paid by Toyota ( though i can't imagine why they would want to continue ), DW is obviously paid to be a shill for Hendrick , and for anyone else that he thinks will benefit his bank account . That goes for Joy amd Larry also . Integrity is not a word anyone could use to describe the FOX NASCAR broadcasts or their on and off air personnel , including the director who gets paid to interupt a battle on the track to show certain cars and sponsors. Neil Bonnett , Ned Jarrett , Bob Jenkins , Benny Parsons , Wally Dallenbach , Buddy Baker , not one of the current crop of rejects can compete with any of them . Actually , while Mikey really is paid by Toyota
( though i can’t imagine why they would want to continue ), DW is obviously paid to be a shill for Hendrick , and for anyone else that he thinks will benefit his bank account . That goes for Joy amd Larry also . Integrity is not a word anyone could use to describe the FOX NASCAR broadcasts or their on and off air personnel , including the director who gets paid to interupt a battle on the track to show certain cars and sponsors. Neil Bonnett , Ned Jarrett , Bob Jenkins , Benny Parsons , Wally Dallenbach , Buddy Baker , not one of the current crop of rejects can compete with any of them .

]]> By: gina http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132/comment-page-1#comment-170118 gina Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:29:37 +0000 http://motorsportsnews.net/archives/1132#comment-170118 I just don't understand why the tire manufacturer wasn't involved throughout the development of the car to make sure they had a tire that would work and provide good racing. This is an oversight that just screams to me that the people running NASCAR don't seem to know what they are doing. I swear the Mikey and DW are both paid by NASCAR, Goodyear and Toyota to only say positive things, no matter how stupid it makes them appear. NASCAR supposedly wants to get back to basics -- well, side by side racing would have been a good place to start -- it's a shame we didn't see it on Sunday. The weather's getting nicer here in the NE -- I'll be back to just catching the highlights of races soon, unless things improve a great deal, real soon. Bristol was a bore last year - I'm guessing it won't be different this year. I hear the ratings are up from last year, but I watched the races while Fox had the broadcasts last year too until TNT and ESPN took over, then I was done. I just don’t understand why the tire manufacturer wasn’t involved throughout the development of the car to make sure they had a tire that would work and provide good racing. This is an oversight that just screams to me that the people running NASCAR don’t seem to know what they are doing. I swear the Mikey and DW are both paid by NASCAR, Goodyear and Toyota to only say positive things, no matter how stupid it makes them appear. NASCAR supposedly wants to get back to basics — well, side by side racing would have been a good place to start — it’s a shame we didn’t see it on Sunday. The weather’s getting nicer here in the NE — I’ll be back to just catching the highlights of races soon, unless things improve a great deal, real soon. Bristol was a bore last year – I’m guessing it won’t be different this year. I hear the ratings are up from last year, but I watched the races while Fox had the broadcasts last year too until TNT and ESPN took over, then I was done.

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