Goodyear studying tires, but indications are punctures caused Talladega failures

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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

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Goodyear officials say that early indications are that punctures to tires caused the failures during Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.

Officials say it appears that there were four punctures to right-side tires during the race, though officials are still looking over the tires. Michael Waltrip Racing's David Reutimann, Red Bull Racing's Brian Vickers, Richard Childress Racing's Mike Wallace and Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin all had tire failures during the 500-mile event.

"That was unusual, wasn't it, because … Talladega is a very smooth race track, and we've had very good races there in the past," Stu Grant, general manager of Goodyear Worldwide Racing, said Tuesday. "I'll tell you at this point, we are taking all the tires that lost air back to Akron [Ohio] for analysis. I will tell you right now, at this point the indications are those are punctures from the race track or something off the car.

"If you look at the way the race developed, you had essentially the race started off with a green-flag run with a debris caution about the time of the fuel stop, and we ran about 50 laps without any issues. In a 40-lap span in the middle of the race, with very few laps on those right-side tires, we had four right-side air losses for whatever reason in that period. Then for the next 100 laps, everything was fine again. So like I say, we're going to complete our analysis, but that's our early indication."

Grant pointed out that this was a theory being studied at this point. He says that engineers on site were able to determine that the first tire problem, that of Reutimann, was because of a puncture. The rest are still being studied.

"The next three we're bringing back to look at," he said.

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4 responses to "Goodyear studying tires, but indications are punctures caused Talladega failures"

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Timmie Timmons said:
Oct 7, 2008 at 6:15 PM
So you are saying that Dale Jr. blew a tire that knocked the quarter panel, as well as his bumper off, during practice with 11 laps on his tires? Jr. had to go to a backup car as his car was demolished. There is something wrong with this picture, because it was not even race day when this occured. Your story just covers race day, not before.
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Anonymous said:
Oct 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM
It seems that the inner-liner was more dangerous than a safety factor. I saw on TV at least one car on pit road with a flat inner-liner as well as the outer tire. On those that exploded, it looked like the explosion was so great that the inner-liner must have ruptured along with the initial flat. A tremendous, Most disastrous explosion. Perhaps the initial flat was caused by a puncture, but if there had been no inner-liner, maybe some cars would have survived.
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MATTHEW WESSON said:
Oct 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM
There is no doubt the inner tire was flat! I saw it with my on eyes, the freeking tire exploded at once! Funny all the tire failures during practice and race - the track must have been dirty as hell! WHATEVER
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bill thompson said:
Oct 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM
there were tire problems all weekend on nascar and arca(they use hoosiers not goodyear). this would point toward imbedded debri in the track or bad track cleaning.
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