In listening to and reading post-race comment after the running of Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500, you’d never know that Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jeff Gordon all finished inside the top-five based on their commentary alone. In what’s turning into an ongoing saga between the race car drivers and Goodyear that started months ago when Goodyear started making tweaks to their tire packages both in an effort to accommodate NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” and also to implement a safer tire for the sport, things really started heating up after a long day ended disastrously for several of NASCAR’s top …read more

It looks like NASCAR is finally waking up the fact that their testing policy was almost a useless policy, simply because teams went and tested at non-NASCAR-sanctioned race tracks. The only down side to this was that teams had to use non-Goodyear tires, so many went and purchased B.F. Goodrich race tires, simply for testing purposes. This caused a two-fold problem.
First, Goodyear is the “official” sponsor of NASCAR as such, the only supplier of tires for the race teams when racing or practicing on NASCAR-sanctioned race tracks. So in this case, teams went and spent money on tire manufacturers (B.F. …read more