Is anyone else sick of seeing equipment failure (goodyear) dictate who wins?

Question

goodyear has been the cause of 2 stewart failures. Bring back competitiion at least then when a part fails one can blame the team for CHOOSING the part. Any other opinions?

Answer 1

i feel so bad stewert should have won why

god why two laps im crying dude , i hate good year learn how to make a tire

Answer 2

I agree with Tony Stewart when he said Goodyear needs to be ashamed to bring a tire in front of the public that destroys cars consistently.

Those new cars are tight meaning they will not turn. That wears out right front tires. There needs to be a separate tire compound designed specifically for the right front tires.

If you notice the harder they run the cars the quicker the front tires pop. That's a heck of a reason to loose a race. It's not a race when you have to factor in your tires will not let you race hard without popping.

Answer 3

It's a shame that the tire went on him but that is racing these days the tires are only going to hold up so long whether he ran over something from Jr's car or it just let go from wear.  Goodyear has missed it a couple times but why is it NOBODY seems to want to say anything when they get it right I think we have seen some races end up pretty dang good that in the past were pretty boring all because of the tire that Goodyear brought to the track.

Answer 4

does anybody here EVER watch shows like nascar performance?  has anyone ever heard one of the best and brightest crew chiefs ever (chad knaus) talk about what the real problem is?  it's not goodyear.  they are constantly asked to provide a tire that's not too hard, not too soft, not too fast, not too soft, not too stiff, etc. etc. etc.

the problem with the right front tires generally is not goodyear's fault.  as many of you have noted, most of the right fronts that blow are on cars that are leading?  have you ever wondered why?  usually those drivers and/or their crew chiefs have usually decided to setup their cars in such a way that they end up putting more pressure on that tire than it was developed to handle.

does anybody remember last year when nascar finally had to mandate minimum tire pressures for each tire on the car?  crew chiefs were pushing the limit, often over the edge, in terms of underinflating the tires when they are new.  has anybody here driven on a seriously underinflated tire?  do you know what happens?  the sidewall gets weakened, torn apart from the inside.  

there are so many reasons tires fail that are caused by the teams that to blame goodyear is ridiculous.  they do a helluvajob given all the variables they have to work with, week after week.  finally, give it a rest.  

and there are plenty of sports where the outcome MIGHT be dictated by equipment malfunction - a tennis player's string may break, a golfer may find the one in a thousand golf balls that aren't all that great, a player's bat may break leaving the hitter with a ground-out rather than a home run.  there i named three.  and if i wasn't so tired of this question, i'm sure i could name a dozen more.  tires fail in all motorsports, as do engine parts, chassis welds, or water in the gas.  and most of the time, the fault lies not with the manufacturer, but with the person or team and how they use it.  or even better, the "water in the gas" problem last year - it wasn't caused by sunoco, but by problems with the tanks, which were not put there by sunoco.

give it a rest already.  i'd hate to have to continue swatting down your bad analogies for much longer - sooner or later it might affect your self-esteem.

Answer 5

totally agree...i was just about to ask the same question...I remember when Stewart called goodyear out a couple of months ago. I wish NASCAR would talk to another tire company like Stewart was saying.

Answer 6

It wasn't GoodYear's fault at the end of the race, that was pieces of Jr's back deck flying off the car.  The stuff the Duck tape flopping in the wind 4 foot back was letting flop and drop...  A race slick can only run over slight objects and are going to blow, hince the word slick...  Thanks Jr.

There will never be another tire war.  Back in the day 5 drivers were killed when Nascar brought in Hoozier tire into racing.  They put soo soft of a compound on the cars that they handled like a dream, but only for short distances.  The compounds are good, it is just the extremes the teams and racing officials take the cars to, will ultimatly bring a tire down.  If a tire blew out when it hits the ground off the jack that is GoodYears fault.  If a tire lasts 50 lap minimum, then that is more onto the cars and drivers and officials letting debris lay on the track...  50 laps at 180+ is a good tire.  Teams are asking them to go 58, with their setups of camber and toe and wedge being to at all time high compared to years past.  The tires would hold up plenty fine on an 1988 car...  Camber on a car makes it wear on the inside of the tire, except in a turn.  If you take a Kleanex and pick all the buggers out of the right side of your nose, can you blame kleanex for your left side being stopped up with buggers?

Answer 7

Feel bad for Stewart...he has been pretty vocal about Goodyear in the past, I would have liked to have seen them get a post race interview with him. I bet he wouldn't have been very kind.

Answer 8

yea.

The winner is usually all about who's car didn't let them down not about the actual skill.

Answer 9

how doyou know it wasnt the tire pressure they were running? kind of odd happening to 2 joe gibbs cars hamlin had same thing.