Browne, Josh

Browne, Josh

Next-Gen Tires: Chewy on the Outside, Crunchy on the Inside

2013-05-24 dr. diandra 4

Listen to SiriusXM NASCAR radio, or peruse any of the racing websites and you will find a lot of theories about how races should be changed to make them ‘more exciting’. To try to amp up the All-Star Race, NASCAR went with four 20-lap segments, followed by a realignment (the cars were ordered in rank of average finish over the first four segments) and a 10-lap shootout. With no series points on the line, that should have made for an exciting evening of hard driving and competitive racing.

Or not. […]

Browne, Josh

Is Tire Fall-Off the Way to Fix “Broken” Tracks?

2012-04-06 dr. diandra 7

There’s been an awful lot of talk recently about changing the layout at various track to make racing more exciting. Bristol is the most-talked-about track, with Bruton Smith planning a $1M revamp of the track to take it back to the way it was before he changed it in 2007. […]