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Post by Zytes on Mar 27, 2024 8:27:50 GMT -8
Welcome To The Nascar Cup Series Toyota Owners 400 Race Thread
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Post by Zytes on Mar 27, 2024 8:32:58 GMT -8
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Post by Zytes on Mar 27, 2024 8:35:43 GMT -8
Goodyear Tire Notes, Fast Facts for March 30-31, 2024Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Speedway Radials Set limits: Cup – 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 9 sets for the race (8 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying) Tire Codes:Left-side — D-5208; Right-side — D-5210 Tire Circumference:Left-side — 2,249 mm (88.54 in.); Right-side — 2,278 mm (89.69 in.) Minimum Recommended Inflation:Left Front — 12 psi; Left Rear — 12 psi; Right Front — 30 psi; Right Rear — 26 psi Storyline – Getting a gauge on more gage with short track package: NASCAR Cup teams will run their short track rules package at Richmond Raceway this weekend and Goodyear has moved to a tire with more gage (tread thickness) as part of that package. Thicker gage will keep more heat in the tire and increase lap-time fall-off over the course of a run. Richmond is also a high tire wear track, so that will also add to tire fall-off. That fall-off will lead to four-tire stops being the call on pit stops all day, making pit crews will be a major part of the race. Cup teams will have nine sets of tires for the 400 lap (300-mile) race, meaning teams can go an average of 44 laps on each set if they use all their tires. “Richmond is the latest Cup short track race with the heavier gage tire that we first brought out at Martinsville last fall and continued with at Phoenix a few weeks ago,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “That thicker tread, along with the fact that Richmond is a high wear track, will lead to a lot of fall-off over a run. Increasing fall-off is something we’ve been working on, and is one of the elements of good racing. The more lap times fall off, the more ‘comers’ and ‘goers’ we see during a run and the more passing we have throughout the field.” Notes – Cup cars on Phoenix tire set-up at Richmond: Being on 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity Series at Richmond this weekend . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that debuted for Cup teams at Phoenix earlier this month . . . this tire set-up is also scheduled to be run at Gateway and New Hampshire later in the season . . . compared to what these teams ran at Richmond last season, these tires feature more gage (tread thickness) . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars will not run inner liners in any of their tires. Wet Weather Tires – Goodyear bringing wet weather tires to Richmond: Goodyear will bring its 18-inch wet weather radial tires to Richmond for the Cup cars, should NASCAR determine that conditions warrant . . . Cup teams will have a maximum of 4 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, and last ran it on a short track in the All-Star race at North Wilkesboro last May . . . 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 30, 2024 7:26:07 GMT -8
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Post by Zytes on Mar 30, 2024 7:26:40 GMT -8
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Post by Zytes on Mar 30, 2024 13:16:51 GMT -8
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Post by Power Fan79 on Apr 1, 2024 3:45:59 GMT -8
Truex did a great impersonation of a clown after the race.
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Post by r60man on Apr 2, 2024 9:48:16 GMT -8
So obvious that Truex was dragging at the restart. Watch Denny's wheels they do not speed up until he crosses the line, Martin mistimed it and lost, but that was not a jump. Shame the stands were so empty, that was a decent race. Easter Sunday is probably not a good choice, why not Saturday night, run the truck and Xfinity on Friday. My first live NASCAR race was Richmond night race and I was phenomenal.
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Post by wayfast on Apr 2, 2024 18:43:33 GMT -8
So obvious that Truex was dragging at the restart. Watch Denny's wheels they do not speed up until he crosses the line, Martin mistimed it and lost, but that was not a jump. Shame the stands were so empty, that was a decent race. Easter Sunday is probably not a good choice, why not Saturday night, run the truck and Xfinity on Friday. My first live NASCAR race was Richmond night race and I was phenomenal. Elton Sawyer said Hamlin jumped the start but since it was the end of the race Nascar didn't have time to do anything about it. This makes no sense to me. What they are basically saying is its OK to jump the start if its at the end of the race. www.jayski.com/2024/04/02/martin-truex-jr-says-denny-hamlin-jumped-final-restart-at-richmond/
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Post by r60man on Apr 3, 2024 5:47:11 GMT -8
So obvious that Truex was dragging at the restart. Watch Denny's wheels they do not speed up until he crosses the line, Martin mistimed it and lost, but that was not a jump. Shame the stands were so empty, that was a decent race. Easter Sunday is probably not a good choice, why not Saturday night, run the truck and Xfinity on Friday. My first live NASCAR race was Richmond night race and I was phenomenal. Elton Sawyer said Hamlin jumped the start but since it was the end of the race Nascar didn't have time to do anything about it. This makes no sense to me. What they are basically saying is its OK to jump the start if its at the end of the race. www.jayski.com/2024/04/02/martin-truex-jr-says-denny-hamlin-jumped-final-restart-at-richmond/Yep, this is typical NASCAR instead of just saying, well folks we screwed up and eating some crow, they now have basically said, its OK to jump a restart of it is the end of the race. Total BS. I do wonder though how visible the lines are inside the car. If there are only lines on the ground you lose sight of them before you cross them. Are there any markers on the walls for that?
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Post by DanicaFan on Apr 3, 2024 7:02:35 GMT -8
Yep, this is typical NASCAR instead of just saying, well folks we screwed up and eating some crow, they now have basically said, its OK to jump a restart of it is the end of the race. Total BS. I do wonder though how visible the lines are inside the car. If there are only lines on the ground you lose sight of them before you cross them. Are there any markers on the walls for that? Putting markers on the walls would require intelligence.
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Post by Zytes on Apr 3, 2024 23:55:58 GMT -8
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