LFingar - 19 April 2008 06:47 PM

Rain tires on an oval would be totally impractical. At least on a road course the cars would probably end up on the grass or gravel.

LOL don't they do that enough already?

FlyingLizardsFan - 22 July 2008 08:37 AM

LFingar - 19 April 2008 06:47 PM

Rain tires on an oval would be totally impractical. At least on a road course the cars would probably end up on the grass or gravel.

LOL don't they do that enough already?

Gah! You beat me to it.

aviazn - 20 April 2008 03:35 AM

Actually, Goodyear has maintained their Nationwide rain tire program. This is from last week's Dallas Star-Telegram:

Rain (tires) won't go away: Fans looking for something different during the Nationwide Series events in Mexico City and Canada should pray for rain. Greg Stucker, Goodyear Racing's director of race tire sales, said the manufacturer has not abandoned its rain-tire program.

"We've had it for road-racing since the mid-1990s," Stucker reminded. "It's just never happened that NASCAR wanted to utilize it in a race condition.

"But we have had it available and conducted race sessions with it. And we'll continue to have it available. If you look at the Nationwide Series now, they go to Mexico City and to Canada. We don't have a lot of versatility in our dates there. If we get rain, we want to make sure we can put on a show for those folks."

http://www.star-telegram.com/340/story/573589.html

God I hope it rains.

you got your wish!!:)

You should be a weatherman!!calling that 3 Months ahead!!!

Nascar is a joke. You would have sworn they were landing on Mars yesterday.

How hard is it to mount rain tires, a defrosting fan & wiper.

The commentators came off as idiots with some of the stupid comments including wallace.

Go back boys and look at some old footage from Trans Am, IMSA, SCCA, HSR & SVRA.

For multi million dollar teams it looked pathetic.

As far as Nascar, Dictating when the teams could go back to slicks? Is there a reason for teams to have a Crew Chief?

Nascar should just go ahead and build the cars, assign employees and develop a robot to drive. Not too far off now.

AAGT Monza - 03 August 2008 11:42 AM

Nascar is a joke. You would have sworn they were landing on Mars yesterday.

How hard is it to mount rain tires, a defrosting fan & wiper.

The commentators came off as idiots with some of the stupid comments including wallace.

Go back boys and look at some old footage from Trans Am, IMSA, SCCA, HSR & SVRA.

For multi million dollar teams it looked pathetic.

As far as Nascar, Dictating when the teams could go back to slicks? Is there a reason for teams to have a Crew Chief?

Nascar should just go ahead and build the cars, assign employees and develop a robot to drive. Not too far off now.

NASCAR needs to look at footage from the '01(probably the rainiest LM ever), '07, and '08 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the '01 24 Hours of Daytona.

When the rain has stopped and the track is drying, why not start the race with rain tires and the drivers change to slicks when they want? Thats kind of the way others do it?

I must have missed it but I didn't see anyone comment on the Nationwide race this year that was in the rain.

It was great. There were some issues but they can be resolved with more rain experience. The tires worked OK and they had no wear issues. I think they were six years old and too hard. A better tire would have improved the racing a lot.

I would love to see more stock car racing in the rain, at least on road courses. Testing some ovals would be interesting.

The big problem with NASCAR racing in the rain is visability.

It isn't with the tires, wipers, rain-x but because of all the moisture that gets into the inside of the hot car and everything steams up. NASCAR type cars are not sealed like your family car, even the driver gets soaked. Some of us use marine blowers & rain-x, other's a wiper.

I was at the Montreal race, the drivers couldn't see anything. I've been to other races where it has rained and I wouldn't even say what some of the drivers had to resort to, to get the steam off the inside of the windows, but it was not very safe, put it that way! I suppose we could sew pockets on the outside of the drivers suit and stuff rags in them for the drivers to use???

All the NASCAR road course cars cabins would have to be sealed like they do a family car. And then that wouldn't even solve half the problem, as there are so many other ways of moisture getting into the inside of the car, through our open windows for example. Even all the electronics aren't designed to withstand much moisture. NASCAR would have to redesign a new body!

So when you compare say a SCCA car, a Le Mans car or a Grand-Am type car which have factory bodies to a NASCAR type car, it's like comparing apples to oranges.

As for the Montreal race, Andrew Ranger showed them how to get around a wet track in a stock car, even though it was his first time ever in a Nationwide car!

When the rain has stopped and the track is fairly dry, start the race on rain tires. That would dry the track alot faster and be some good racing. Let the teams go back to slicks when they want to.