Bristol Night Race can be a tire conservation race … or not

It is unfair to expect a repetition of the 2024 spring race wildly unpredictable and memorable 2024 spring races, based on the current temperature forecast for Saturday on the Bristol Motor Speedway.

However, this does not mean that Goodyer does not expect directional progress for tire wear on the right side in the Bristol Night Race.

The Goodyer’s NASCAR project manager Mark Keto is very confident that the extreme tires in the spring 2024 were the result of the cold weather, the use of a resin instead of the PJ1 trackbite and the lack of data due to the dirt race in the last two sessions.

The race that was fought with temperatures in the 50s and 60s produced a non-surpady record 54 lead change and 3,589 passing through green as per the correct sides that highlighted about 40 laps in a run.

Then, in this spring, a cold Saturday produced the same koring before a year, but a very hot race on Sunday afternoon created a more traditional racing product on the PJ1 trackbite.

“But we saw a good amount of tires wearing,” Keto told Motorsport.com on Tuesday afternoon. “The correct sides were under the cords in 120 to 150 laps, but the driver wants we get that number close to 70 laps.”

For the challenge, the Goodyer is back with a soft right-side compound, and a one which was not tested due to the MLB speedway classic held in summer, which can actually make a challenge to cross the teams.

When the race begins, the temperature can be higher in the 70s, enough to take rubber for the track, so Keto says that the Goodyer tried to compensate for it.

“It is soft, but not in the sense that we are trying to add more grip,” Keto said. “This is soft in the fact that we are trying to wear more walking when we know that the track takes rubber and it gets rubber and it is the place where the fall decreases. Therefore, after carrying the track rubber, we are trying to wear more walking.”

Moving forward, Keto states that the Goodyer has imagined a tire that does not lay rubber in a porous racing surface on hot days, even if it is against traditional knowledge.

“We Be able to do Do this, “Keto said.” We have a test for 11 and 12 November, where we are trying to take some temperature dependence in the Bristol. The thing is that on concrete tracks, you usually want this rubber so that it makes the drivers to roam and find the speed where the track is still green. ,

But Keto also admitted that NASCAR and the contestants equally appreciated the challenges related to the 2024 spring race, where the tire management was completely determined behind the steering wheel.

“NASCAR liked what he saw,” Keto said.

Denny Hamlin In the headlines generated on Monday and Tuesday, when he mentioned a friction test conducted on this tire, which suggested wearing extreme tires later this week.

“They have this machine, apparently, it is like sandpaper,” Hamlin said. “So, they slide this tire – anyway, there is a tire that goes to this sand belt machine and checks the wear, how is this tire wearing under some load?

“Like, it was so aggressive that it destroyed the machine. As it was only lowered and stuck in the machine.”

Keto stated that it was force and speed machine, but it is not a sign of track factors and ‘not necessarily an indicator of future performance, when factoring Weather, PJ 1 and the track are rubbing the track.

Everyone told, 2020 cup series champion Chase eliet It is said that he is expecting and does not expect a normal bristle race Hendric motorsports Very different to take off with anything.

“I think you have to prepare for a normal bristle,” Elliott said in the weekend in the World Wide Technology Raceway. “If you put your card for a tire conservation race, you will be giving so much if it will probably be based on the last four years or whatever is.

“So, I think you have to plan for it, and if the track does not take rubber, you adjust a fly as we did in the previous spring.”

Rudy Fugle, head of the crew of Hendric Motorsports No. 24, says he hopes that it will be for about 100 laps instead of 200 or 40 on the right.

Fugle said on Siriusxm NASCAR radio on Monday, “The most difficult thing at the end of this week will be that we are deciding the cups we run and what kind of decisions we have to make to live the tire.” “And this is because if the track rubs in the track and it is not a problem, then you are going to regret not having all the capacity from the tires on your right side.”

Ross chasteanAnother playoff driver, expecting to remove elimination on Saturday, is expecting a Friday practice related to Saturday race.

“I don’t think they want tire drama as if we had a few years ago,” Chastain said. “At the end of the day, all this has to go through the tire to reach the track. I trust the people of Goodyer what they do.