What led up to "TireGate"
At Michigan, Jeff Gordon was near a lap down and considerably off the pace of Mark Martin and the other leaders. With 18 laps to go, Ward Burton's engine let go, bringing out caution. Mark Martin and most of the other leaders took on four tires; Gordon took on two tires. When the green came back out, Gordon was suddenly able to run down Martin, pass with ease and pull away from the field. It was openly questioned how his car could have performed so much better than it had been. It was an emotional defeat for Martin, as he poured his heart and soul into winning this event and clearly was the best car on the track. Two weeks later, at Loudon, lightening struck again. Gordon won the pole, but on cold tires, he couldn't keep the inside line. It seemed to take about 30 laps for Gordon's tires to come in and start running comparable lap times with Martin, who again dominated the event. With about 75 laps left, Martin tangled with a lapped Rich Bickle, putting the Bickle machine into the wall and bringing out another caution. Again, Martin took four tires and Gordon and several other drivers took only two. While the two tire strategy blew up in the faces of the other cars such as Rusty Wallace, again it seemed to be just the ticket as Gordon suddenly was turning the best lap times and pulled away for the win.
The accusation
During the week leading up to the Loudon race, Jack Roush, car owner of Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Chad Little, Kevin Lapage, and Johnny Benson, received a letter from a chemical company stating that some of the competition was using a chemical agent to alter the compound of the tires. The letter also included two samples of such a chemical. The letter did not single out any teams and indicated that the chemical is virtually undetectable after applying it. Roush told NASCAR officials about this, and dropped the subject. After Gordon was able to somehow gain so much time after taking two tires on the cars that took four tires over a relatively long green flag run. (70 laps), Jack requested that NASCAR look into the possibility that Gordon's team were altering their tires. NASCAR responded by roping off the pit areas of both the #6 and #24 teams and confiscated all the tires. Ray Evernham was clearly angered by the accusation and as many saw on RPM2Night, went over to Jack Roush in the garage area and could clearly be heard saying AIR, Jack...Its AIR. Jack angrily responded by yelling Get out of here!!! The verbal assault was by no means over, as the media smelling a controversy jumped all over this story like a shark on bloody meat. Jack repeatedly said there was no way a car could take 2 tires and pick up 7 tenth's on its lap time over a long run. Ray countered by saying that he was no engineer, but at that track, a tight car would be freed up by taking 2 tires. NASCAR could find nothing wrong with the tires in their initial inspection, so sent them off to an independent lab for further testing. They hoped for results before the next event at Darlington.
The announcement
The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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At Michigan, Jeff Gordon was near a lap down and considerably off the pace of Mark Martin and the other leaders. With 18 laps to go, Ward Burton's engine let go, bringing out caution. Mark Martin and most of the other leaders took on four tires; Gordon took on two tires. When the green came back out, Gordon was suddenly able to run down Martin, pass with ease and pull away from the field. It was openly questioned how his car could have performed so much better than it had been. It was an emotional defeat for Martin, as he poured his heart and soul into winning this event and clearly was the best car on the track. Two weeks later, at Loudon, lightening struck again. Gordon won the pole, but on cold tires, he couldn't keep the inside line. It seemed to take about 30 laps for Gordon's tires to come in and start running comparable lap times with Martin, who again dominated the event. With about 75 laps left, Martin tangled with a lapped Rich Bickle, putting the Bickle machine into the wall and bringing out another caution. Again, Martin took four tires and Gordon and several other drivers took only two. While the two tire strategy blew up in the faces of the other cars such as Rusty Wallace, again it seemed to be just the ticket as Gordon suddenly was turning the best lap times and pulled away for the win.
The accusation
During the week leading up to the Loudon race, Jack Roush, car owner of Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Chad Little, Kevin Lapage, and Johnny Benson, received a letter from a chemical company stating that some of the competition was using a chemical agent to alter the compound of the tires. The letter also included two samples of such a chemical. The letter did not single out any teams and indicated that the chemical is virtually undetectable after applying it. Roush told NASCAR officials about this, and dropped the subject. After Gordon was able to somehow gain so much time after taking two tires on the cars that took four tires over a relatively long green flag run. (70 laps), Jack requested that NASCAR look into the possibility that Gordon's team were altering their tires. NASCAR responded by roping off the pit areas of both the #6 and #24 teams and confiscated all the tires. Ray Evernham was clearly angered by the accusation and as many saw on RPM2Night, went over to Jack Roush in the garage area and could clearly be heard saying AIR, Jack...Its AIR. Jack angrily responded by yelling Get out of here!!! The verbal assault was by no means over, as the media smelling a controversy jumped all over this story like a shark on bloody meat. Jack repeatedly said there was no way a car could take 2 tires and pick up 7 tenth's on its lap time over a long run. Ray countered by saying that he was no engineer, but at that track, a tight car would be freed up by taking 2 tires. NASCAR could find nothing wrong with the tires in their initial inspection, so sent them off to an independent lab for further testing. They hoped for results before the next event at Darlington.
The announcement
The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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The accusation
During the week leading up to the Loudon race, Jack Roush, car owner of Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Chad Little, Kevin Lapage, and Johnny Benson, received a letter from a chemical company stating that some of the competition was using a chemical agent to alter the compound of the tires. The letter also included two samples of such a chemical. The letter did not single out any teams and indicated that the chemical is virtually undetectable after applying it. Roush told NASCAR officials about this, and dropped the subject. After Gordon was able to somehow gain so much time after taking two tires on the cars that took four tires over a relatively long green flag run. (70 laps), Jack requested that NASCAR look into the possibility that Gordon's team were altering their tires. NASCAR responded by roping off the pit areas of both the #6 and #24 teams and confiscated all the tires. Ray Evernham was clearly angered by the accusation and as many saw on RPM2Night, went over to Jack Roush in the garage area and could clearly be heard saying AIR, Jack...Its AIR. Jack angrily responded by yelling Get out of here!!! The verbal assault was by no means over, as the media smelling a controversy jumped all over this story like a shark on bloody meat. Jack repeatedly said there was no way a car could take 2 tires and pick up 7 tenth's on its lap time over a long run. Ray countered by saying that he was no engineer, but at that track, a tight car would be freed up by taking 2 tires. NASCAR could find nothing wrong with the tires in their initial inspection, so sent them off to an independent lab for further testing. They hoped for results before the next event at Darlington.
The announcement
The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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During the week leading up to the Loudon race, Jack Roush, car owner of Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Chad Little, Kevin Lapage, and Johnny Benson, received a letter from a chemical company stating that some of the competition was using a chemical agent to alter the compound of the tires. The letter also included two samples of such a chemical. The letter did not single out any teams and indicated that the chemical is virtually undetectable after applying it. Roush told NASCAR officials about this, and dropped the subject. After Gordon was able to somehow gain so much time after taking two tires on the cars that took four tires over a relatively long green flag run. (70 laps), Jack requested that NASCAR look into the possibility that Gordon's team were altering their tires. NASCAR responded by roping off the pit areas of both the #6 and #24 teams and confiscated all the tires. Ray Evernham was clearly angered by the accusation and as many saw on RPM2Night, went over to Jack Roush in the garage area and could clearly be heard saying AIR, Jack...Its AIR. Jack angrily responded by yelling Get out of here!!! The verbal assault was by no means over, as the media smelling a controversy jumped all over this story like a shark on bloody meat. Jack repeatedly said there was no way a car could take 2 tires and pick up 7 tenth's on its lap time over a long run. Ray countered by saying that he was no engineer, but at that track, a tight car would be freed up by taking 2 tires. NASCAR could find nothing wrong with the tires in their initial inspection, so sent them off to an independent lab for further testing. They hoped for results before the next event at Darlington.
The announcement
The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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The announcement
The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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Agree?? Disagree??.
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The awaited announcement did not come before the Southern 500 at Darlington. There were preliminary rumors that the tires were legal, but no official announcement. Interestingly enough, the ESPN camera crew filmed NASCAR officials confiscating a rear tire from Dale Earnhardt's team after an early pit stop and Benny Parsons said that NASCAR officials were randomly confiscating tires up and down pit road and that NASCAR was probably doing this to let all the teams know that they were serious about enforcing tire rules. On Tuesday, it was announced on RPN2nite that the tires confiscated were merely being checked for wear, and had nothing to do with "Tiregate". On Thursday, before the Excide 400, NASCAR announced that the test results were in and nothing was found wrong with either the #24 or the #6 tires.
What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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Agree?? Disagree??.
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What I think... (like you really care.)
First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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First of all the Loudon issue. I have to agree with Jack Roush when he said that when the Gordon team took on 2 tires and picked up 7 tenths, that's pretty unbelievable. I was watching MCI's timing and scoring, and over the last 50 laps of the race, Gordon was going up to 3MPH faster than he had done at any other time during the race. Evernham said that by putting 2 tires on, it would tighten up a loose car, but after the Michigan race, he did the same thing to accomplish the opposite effect. To me, that's all neither here nor there. To me the real bad guy in this deal was NASCAR. I can't believe that it took 10 days to get test results back on those tires. By taking so long to release the results, it tells me that NASCAR was hoping that something would come up to put tiregate on the back burner. Coincidentally, after Darlington, NASCAR put four cars on the chassis dyno and released the results in the garage area at Richmond on Friday. (You have to remember that NASCAR NEVER, EVER, RELEASES their test results. That tells me they want the garage area to be buzzing about something else. Another thing I noticed. At Darlington, they were taking tires randomly to be checked, later they said they were checking for tire wear. SORRY....that dog don't hunt. Here is why. Whenever NASCAR is concerned about tire wear, they first radio several teams and get their opinion. If there is concern from the teams about tire wear, NASCAR gets Goodyear engineers to check the tires after they come off IN THE PIT AREA. They don't take the tires to be tested elsewhere. Goodyear then reports that either some teams are off on their chassis, or if indeed there is a problem with the tire, usually the former. Lastly, after Jeff Burton's win over Jeff Gordon at Richmond, (which Gordon picked up over 2mph on his last set of tires) NASCAR reportedly cut large chunks out of both Burton's and Gordon's tires and are storing them at Daytona. Why do this right after announcing to the world that there is no tire tampering going on? If you take any one of the things that occurred over the last two weeks, you would just say that's odd. If you take it all together, you begin to smell a rat! I for one smell a rat! I have several ideas of why NASCAR would want to protect someone who may be cheating, but I will save those ideas for a later page.
The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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The madness continues
NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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NASCAR announced, following the Richmond race in which they cut pieces out of Gordon's and Burton's tires, that they would continue to do this and store the tires at Daytona throught the rest of the season. At Dover, tires again were impounded before the race and not released to the teams until a couple of hours before race time. It sounds like this policy will continue also.
Sure thing. I believe you, nothing was wrong with the tires, that's why you are changing the way you do everything related to tires and tire control!!I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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I guess that we are all supposed to play stupid while all this goes on.
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