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Flat tyre chaos strikes NASCAR's Auto Club 400

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  • 23rd March 2014, 22:31 at 10:31 pm #253570
    Magnificent Geoffrey
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    Today’s Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway in California was marred by a series of tyre failures with almost 20 cars suffering flat rears after all running 15-20 green flag laps on the same set of tyres.

    After Jimmie Johnson led almost the whole race and suffered a flat with about 8 laps to go, Kyle Busch eventually won on a Green-White-Chequered finish that was brought out after Clint Bowyer spun due to yet another flat tyre.

    Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of questions asked of Goodyear, NASCAR’s tyre supplier, after this race…

    23rd March 2014, 22:57 at 10:57 pm #253571
    Magnificent Geoffrey
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    OK, sounds like it was more to do with how the teams set the cars up, rather than the tyres themselves. Now where have I heard that before…

    24th March 2014, 4:40 at 4:40 am #253575
    JackySteeg
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    The tyre failures were pretty curious considering the left side tyres experience much less load than the right side tyres. It reminds me of that farcical race at Indy a few years ago (the NASCAR Brickyard 400 I mean, not the Formula 1 race), although yesterday’s race perhaps wasn’t as bad as that. I seem to recall NASCAR being forced to bring out a caution every 10 laps because the tyres could last no longer. At least this race didn’t get THAT bad…

    25th March 2014, 17:41 at 5:41 pm #253773
    SP
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    Everyone’s quick to point at Goodyear, but I think other factors played a large part. Camber, pressures and the track surface, for instance.

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