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Goodyear

2024 Martinsville II Practice: What to Watch

2024-11-02 dr. diandra 0

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. […]

Martinsville Speedway

A Year of Short-Track Tire Experiments: What We’ve Learned and What it Means for Martinsville

2024-10-31 dr. diandra 1

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

2024-03-18 dr. diandra 4

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

2023-10-16 dr. diandra 0

The 2023 fall Las Vegas lead change review has 9 green-flag passes and an epic battle between Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell. […]

2022 Watkins Glen Race Report
Rain Tires

2022 Watkins Glen Race Report

2022-08-22 dr. diandra 0

The slightly damp 2022 Watkins Glen Race Report has strategy, wet-weather racing, and a late-race pass for the lead. […]

This is a MTS CT Plus Flat Trac, which Goodyear (and other companies) use for tire testing (Photo courtesy of Smithers.)
Goodyear

Nuclear Deterrence and Goodyear Tires

2021-02-26 dr. diandra 0

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

2020-03-06 dr. diandra 9

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

2020-03-05 dr. diandra 20

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

2018-10-12 dr. diandra 2

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

2017-10-13 dr. diandra 1

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 […]

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