Goodyear
2024 Martinsville II Practice: What to Watch
The 2024 Martinsville II Practice is the first and only shot teams have to understand the new tires before the race to determine the Championship 4. […]
Tires
Martinsville Speedway
A Year of Short-Track Tire Experiments: What We’ve Learned and What it Means for Martinsville
After a year of short-track tire experiments aimed at solving the Gen-7 car’s deficiencies at short tracks, what have we learned? And how will that knowledge affect the penultimate race of the season at Martinsville this weekend as six drivers compete for the last two spots in the Championship 4? […]
Rain Tires
What we Know about the Abnormal Tire Wear at Bristol
The Bristol 2024 race set lead change record for short tracks, but only because of abnormal tire wear. Let’s investigate why. […]
Christopher Bell
2023 Fall Las Vegas Lead Change Review
The 2023 fall Las Vegas lead change review has 9 green-flag passes and an epic battle between Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell. […]
Rain Tires
2022 Watkins Glen Race Report
The slightly damp 2022 Watkins Glen Race Report has strategy, wet-weather racing, and a late-race pass for the lead. […]
Goodyear
Nuclear Deterrence and Goodyear Tires
How does the country’s nuclear deterrence system help make Goodyear tires? And how do Goodyear tires help improve nuclear deterrence? […]
Air Titan
The Scientific Secrets of PJ1 Track Bite
NASCAR’s continued struggle to balance cost, safety and competitiveness led to using PJ1 Track Bite in 2017 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Since then it’s been used (mostly successfully) at other tracks. So what is it […]
Tires
NASCAR NextGen Wheels: The Scientific Argument for a Single Lug
The NASCAR NextGen car will feature a wheel with a single lug nut instead of the five-lug pattern that has been a NASCAR mainstay. While some decried the switch from tradition, this change was necessitated […]
Aerodynamics
The 2019 Rules Package: The Tapered Spacer
NASCAR announced the 2019 rules package last week. Reactions from fans ranged from wait-and-see to despair to a surprising amount of anger. […]
Asphalt
How to Make Grippier Racetracks Using Spy Technology
If PJ1 TrackBite isn’t the Solution, What is? Dale Earnhardt, Jr. suggested tracks stop using PJ1 Trackbite because it didn’t work well in Charlotte last weekend. He called for additional research to understand how the […]