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Wet Weather Tires Were Put to The Test at Loudon, Plus
Wet Weather Tires Were Put to The Test at Loudon, Plus NASCAR Schedule News | The Teardown
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“Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media”
Wet weather tires get their first mid-race test in the NASCAR Cup Series, leaving Jeff and Jordan to dissect both the good and the bad elements of the situation. Plus Jordan drops some Bianchi Bombs on upcoming NASCAR schedule changes and the guys digest the state of the playoff picture halfway…
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Click baited by the screen shot….. Lets see what dale has too say……..loads in…. THIS isn't dale! thumbs down.
Too many damn words saying the same damn thing over and over. Make a point and move on. This could be 45 mins. As it is I watch at 2X
They have to step away once call made. It's team decision after that on tiers.
If we are going to have non-competitive pitstops then how are we going to have green flag pitstops? This is going to turn into a problem where NASCAR is going to throw competition cautions every 50 laps (example) and then throw that caution and force people to pit. Until they can figure out how to get pit Road safe during wet weather conditions it is hard to say “figure it out yourself” I don’t know how formula 1 is able to do their pitstops without spinning their tires on painted lines, but if it is a different kind of asphalt then these short tracks might need to look at repaving pit Road to make it work.
My opinion is that the rule should be written as such.
“If NASCAR deems that the track is experiencing ‘wet conditions’ they will throw a caution and assess the situation. If they deem conditions are satisfactory to continue, NASCAR will allow teams to choose to enter pit road to change tires using non competitive stops. Teams that elect to pit will restart behind lead lap cars that chose to stay out. NASCAR will throw a competitions at 50 laps from the last caution where teams may choose to pit. For each pit stop, teams may choose to install the tire compound of their choice.
Wet weather tires may not be installed during any time that NASCAR has stated that the track is experiencing dry conditions.”
Darlington.
WG
Dover
Kansas
Talladega
Charlotte oval
Pocono
Las Vegas
Bristol
Homestead
Right now with this car
If this was playoff Martinsville would you feel differently?
St. Louis getting a NASCAR playoff date makes some sense. The race has been interesting enough over the last three years to be fairly compelling. Year 1 had a GWC pass for the lead and Year 3 turned into a strategy race and led to a last lap pass for the lead. The lower temperatures in the fall could lead to better racing on a track that already widens out and allows for multiple grooves throughout the race. Also, happy to not bake in the sun in June now haha. Once I saw the Indy Car schedule come out, I knew instantly that STL's NASCAR date would be moving.
NH September race was always the better of the two
NANNYCAR! Bring back the Rock! I miss the old Rockingham Races!
A great place to experiment with teams selecting their own tire type at their leisure, without artifical yellows would be to wet down the track before next years allstar race.
Rain limits traction right? Just make the regular slicks smaller. The tires are the biggest width they have ever been.
St Louis lacks an NFL team now. It will definitely have an easier time attracting a large crowd
Alternate from fastest practice time to slowest time and back and forth till you get thru the field. Seems like that could be more fair for qualifying
You guys gotta get your mic volumes synced I always have to turn it up for Jeff and then Jordan blows my speakers out
As someone from NH who is selfishly ecstatic about this potential schedule swap up (I desperately miss my September Loudon race), I agree that it doesn't really make sense with the other schedule swaps in the playoffs. I would understand swapping in Loudon OR Gateway over the Glen, but putting in both of them as well as removing Homestead? Like you guys said, where is the parity in the playoffs, now? Its a short, flat track specialists dream (one of the rarer tracks on the schedule).
Also, the timing of the race was a really great point. If they start September at 1pm in NH, it will go off fine without a hitch, but they won't do that. They'll start it at 3:30 to chase the almighty viewer, and in a perfectly green flag race with no cautions, they'll be fighting the sunset. So what happens to a shitshow Loudon playoff race? It just gets called short? I don't want playoff races ending on a farce like that.
Im willing to bet it has a lot to do with numbers. Up until 2016, Loudon had some of the best attendance, hands down. Bahre and Gappens had similar mentalities that an empty seat is money not being spent at concessions and other places. Since the change in management, marketing and ticket deals took a VERY obvious turn and attendance dropped like a rock. They then used NHMS's "low attendance" as a catalyst to move the playoff date to Vegas, which is whatever, it makes sense on a grand scale to SMI as a business. That being said, NHMS has NEVER had bad attendance when it isn't being treated like SMI's red-headed step-child and I fail to see why the industry as a whole ignores this. Go back to pictures of 2014/15, look at the attendance, and then jump a year or two and try to convince me that its a natural decline in numbers (this was the management change time period between Gappens and McGrath).
Also, Does anyone also remember Gappens announcing lights in 2015 for nothing to come of it? Seems like SMI didn't fight very hard for that after Gappens lost his job.
New Hampshire sucks for racing
I think Homestead should either be an All Star race or the Championship race
Why would anybody want NASCAR talk8ng on camera giving us some lame ass excuse for what they did,when in fact it doesn't really matter what they say. They'll do what they want and the booth will always kiss their ass and not question them at all
If the schedule rumors are true to Jordan's point, I am blown away. I have no issue with the Darlington placement, the track always puts on a show. But to pull Miami and The Glen out for two short track flat ovals is a misstep to me. I personally thought both races did not show a product that deserved to be in the playoffs. Why would they put NH in over Dover? They're both owned by the same group and the Dover fans have shown up the last 3 years DESPITE rain delays. They've had larger crowds at a Monday race at Dover than they get at new Hampshire on a Sunday, extremely disappointed to hear that NH is getting picked over Dover despite the short track package's current shortcomings. I'm positive that viewership ratings will tank for those playoff dates unless Nascar fixes the package immediately.
I came to the podcast for Jeff: I’ve found myself staying for Jordan.
If they let them pit whenever they want, then not everybody will be on pitroad at the same time. Much safer and not as dumb
They could lower the pit road speed during wet conditions . To 10 to 20 mph