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Post by Zytes on Mar 20, 2024 10:51:34 GMT -8
Welcome to The Nascar Cup Series EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix Official Race Thread
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Post by Zytes on Mar 20, 2024 10:54:29 GMT -8
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Post by Zytes on Mar 20, 2024 10:56:44 GMT -8
GOODYEAR TIRE NOTESNASCAR Cup Series – Race No. 6 – 68 laps / 231.88 miles Circuit of The Americas (3.41-mile road course) – Austin, Tex. Fast Facts for March 22-24, 2024 Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Road Course Radials Set limits: Cup: 3 sets for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 6 sets for the race (5 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying) Tire Codes: Left-front & Right-rear — D-5212; Right-front & Left-rear – D-5213 Tire Circumference: 2,275 mm (89.57 in.) Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 20 psi; Right Front — 22 psi; Left Rear — 17 psi; Right Rear — 17 psi Storyline – Cup teams on “directionally mounted” tires at COTA: NASCAR Cup teams are on a well established tire set-up at Circuit of The Americas this weekend, having run it in all of its six road and street course events last season. Having such consistency is a great benefit to the teams in that they have a detailed notebook built up on this tire and how it responds on the track. The unique thing about this Cup tire set-up is that the tire on all four corners of the car is the same (construction and compound), yet there are two different tire codes – one on the left-front and right-rear, and one on the right-front and left-rear. This allows Goodyear to build each distinct code to have the tread run directionally and handle the different stresses asked of it, whether it is a front or rear, left-side or right-side. This reduces the stress on the tire’s tread splice, the area of the tread that is joined together in the manufacturing process. That comes into play specifically under heavy braking into the corners on the front tires and heavy acceleration off the corners on the rear tires. “Over the past two Cup seasons we’ve gone to a consistent road course tire set-up that utilizes one tire on all four corners of the car but with two tire codes,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “The two different ‘D-codes’ identify on which corner of the car each tire should be run. This system of mounting the tires directionally helps to protect the beveled splice of the tread component, insuring that it’s ‘closed’ under braking on both front tires and closed under acceleration on both rears.” Notes – Cup cars on established tire set-up at COTA: All three NASCAR national series will run different tire set-ups at COTA this week . . . Cup teams ran this same tire combination at COTA in 2023, as well as at their other five road courses last season . . . different from how Cup teams run distinct left-side and right-side tire codes on ovals, they will run one tire code on the left-front and right-rear, and a different tire code on the right-front and left-rear (see Storyline above) . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires. Wet Weather Tires – Goodyear has wet weather tires at COTA: Goodyear will bring its 18-inch wet weather radial tires to Circuit of The Americas for the NASCAR Cup cars, should NASCAR determine that conditions warrant . . . Cup teams will have a maximum of 6 sets of wet weather tires for the event . . . NASCAR Cup teams last ran a wet weather tire in competition at the Chicago street course last July . . . in addition to the obvious difference of a tread pattern versus Goodyear’s dry weather “slick” tires, the “Goodyear” and “Eagle” lettering on the sidewalls of the wet weather tires is white, not the standard yellow. From Jayski.com
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Post by Zytes on Mar 20, 2024 11:06:40 GMT -8
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Post by DanicaFan on Mar 20, 2024 11:28:33 GMT -8
Be interesting to see how much the drivers bitch about the track bumps.
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Post by noonesfan18 on Mar 22, 2024 7:31:02 GMT -8
Be interesting to see how much the drivers bitch about the track bumps. Can't wait for the clowns to throw enough dirt on the track that NASCAR has to throw a caution so they don't wipe themselves out like last year.
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Post by Zytes on Mar 23, 2024 7:57:29 GMT -8
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Post by Zytes on Mar 23, 2024 9:03:31 GMT -8
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Post by hairyscotsman on Mar 23, 2024 13:12:24 GMT -8
Oh my. There is noooobody at COTA for the XFinity race.
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Post by DanicaFan on Mar 23, 2024 13:19:30 GMT -8
Oh my. There is noooobody at COTA for the XFinity race. Surely you jest. You know there are at least 85,000 95,000 people there.
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Post by hairyscotsman on Mar 23, 2024 13:39:20 GMT -8
Oh my. There is noooobody at COTA for the XFinity race. Surely you jest. You know there are at least 85,000 95,000 people there. LOL. Yep. I mean ... it's really desolate. They might have 5K people out there if they're lucky, and it's a beautiful 70 degree day. I've seen much bigger crowds there for WEC in September heat.
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Post by DanicaFan on Mar 24, 2024 3:10:56 GMT -8
Surely you jest. You know there are at least 85,000 95,000 people there. LOL. Yep. I mean ... it's really desolate. They might have 5K people out there if they're lucky, and it's a beautiful 70 degree day. I've seen much bigger crowds there for WEC in September heat. We'll see how bad it is today.
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Post by downforce on Mar 24, 2024 11:31:14 GMT -8
Hope they have a decent crowd. Watching SVG is worth the price of admission.
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Post by Zytes on Mar 24, 2024 11:41:29 GMT -8
The following cars will drop to the rear of the field:
17 – Unapproved adjustments 41 - Unapproved adjustments 66 - Unapproved adjustments
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Post by Zytes on Mar 24, 2024 17:45:06 GMT -8
According to those in the know posting on the X
Post-race inspection is complete,
@williambyron and the @teamhendrick No. 24 team are the official winners of the race.
@justin_Haley and the No. 51 @rickwareracing team (finished 17th) have been disqualified for not meeting post-race weights.
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Post by hairyscotsman on Mar 24, 2024 21:53:47 GMT -8
LOL. Yep. I mean ... it's really desolate. They might have 5K people out there if they're lucky, and it's a beautiful 70 degree day. I've seen much bigger crowds there for WEC in September heat. We'll see how bad it is today. Got free tickets from a friend who also got them for free and decided not to go. Race was pretty unremarkable. The stages really kill much chance for strategy to have any effect on the order at a road circuit (and maybe anywhere, I guess). We left with 20 to go and were ordering burgers near the house by the time the race ended. Pretty small crowd. Maybe 25K ish, despite NASCAR doing a good job running the show (and about 2000 of those people entered with tickets donated to a local school district's employees). I'm not sure the NASCAR crowd and Austin are a good fit. I'm one of the people who said NASCAR would be great racing at COTA. I gotta say I swung and missed on that call. It's not great, for some reason.
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Post by r60man on Mar 25, 2024 4:51:36 GMT -8
NASCAR really does not understand road racing and it shows. Stage breaks destroy the need to strategize. I know exactly when pit stops can occur so anyone can work that out. They just want restarts and the "bunching" up of the field. No one finishes a lap down? That simply isn't road racing.
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Post by noonesfan18 on Mar 25, 2024 6:44:22 GMT -8
^
NASCAR got rid of them before and the fandumb complained about how bad the racing was, so NASCAR put the cautions back. It also doesn't help FOX had a terrible broadcast (per usual).
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Post by wilmywood8455 on Mar 25, 2024 13:17:59 GMT -8
We'll see how bad it is today. Got free tickets from a friend who also got them for free and decided not to go. Race was pretty unremarkable. The stages really kill much chance for strategy to have any effect on the order at a road circuit (and maybe anywhere, I guess). We left with 20 to go and were ordering burgers near the house by the time the race ended. Pretty small crowd. Maybe 25K ish, despite NASCAR doing a good job running the show (and about 2000 of those people entered with tickets donated to a local school district's employees). I'm not sure the NASCAR crowd and Austin are a good fit. I'm one of the people who said NASCAR would be great racing at COTA. I gotta say I swung and missed on that call. It's not great, for some reason. COTA is about twice too long for those cars. 2 minutes plus per lap is just boooooring.
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Post by hairyscotsman on Mar 25, 2024 13:27:59 GMT -8
Got free tickets from a friend who also got them for free and decided not to go. Race was pretty unremarkable. The stages really kill much chance for strategy to have any effect on the order at a road circuit (and maybe anywhere, I guess). We left with 20 to go and were ordering burgers near the house by the time the race ended. Pretty small crowd. Maybe 25K ish, despite NASCAR doing a good job running the show (and about 2000 of those people entered with tickets donated to a local school district's employees). I'm not sure the NASCAR crowd and Austin are a good fit. I'm one of the people who said NASCAR would be great racing at COTA. I gotta say I swung and missed on that call. It's not great, for some reason. COTA is about twice too long for those cars. 2 minutes plus per lap is just boooooring. Yep. There was definitely too much time between the packs coming by. All the cars being the same doesn't help either, at least in my case. I'm looking forward to finally seeing the sportscars out there again.
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