Is it right for Nascar to allow Goodyear to change the tire compound after the teams test?

May be...

I'm not talking about tire testing! Goodyear changed the compound after the teams tested at Atlanta! The tire testing was done first. This caused all the teams a problem. They spent a lot of money and time testing with a different tire than they raced on. Making all of their data useless. This is the reason for the problem last weekend! Nascar should make it a policy that the tires used in team testing will be the same tires used during the race! That would solve the problem, but I bet Nascar doesn't do it!!! They say they want to save teams money, then why would they let them test on one tire and then let goodyear bring a different one for the race? It's just another Nascar control issue!!!

if it mean safer racing... yes..

Nascar know whats best for the drivers in this case it was safety. They would rather make there "data" useless then have a class A driver be killed at the hands of goodyear

No, they should get it right the first time.

No its not right but a necessary evil. But if they missed the tire pick that bad for the test that they have to change it what makes them think they can get it right the second time?

No that is really wrong. Dale Jr said "One week isn't enough time to change the car for a different tire than what we tested," and every other team had too much trouble trying to keep the car on the track to be able to race each other. Every car finished the race with the paint scraped off of the right side from rubbing the wall. I don't think that is safer at all. It definitely didn't make for good racing.

No it is not Right!!!!!!

no stewart was right

The problem is the COT and its higher roll center more than the tire. Yes, Goodyear should have stayed with the compound they tested with, which they obviously didn't do, but the new car is going to be more abusive on any compound because of its higher center of gravity. But NASCAR has tied the hands of the teams so they can't deal effectively with problems like were evident at Atlanta, and we saw the result...a boring race!!

People will differ, let's just say the a week before the race switching the tire was a no win for most drivers. All of the in car communications and post race for the most part was about the tire, only differing opinions so far seem to have come from Mike Waltrip, Carl Edwards and Chad Knaus who say it is the car not the tire...I still say that changing the tire a week before the race is not adequate time to adjust to what they had to deal with.

Who knows what Goodyear or NASCAR was thinking. They both messed up bad. Last falls practice was a huge waste of time and money for everybody involved.

To make it even worse neither could tell us why they made that change. Goodyear sent a marketing manager who probably couldn't tell you anymore about that tire than the average person. At least send an engineer who could tell you what the actual problem was and what they were hoping the changes would do.

From the driver comments it sounds as though the teams were happy with that they tested with last fall. Now they show up with a different tire that nobody liked, couldn't race with, and almost every car hit the wall at least one.

Then the problem is if they test on a tire, and something happens with that tire a bunch during the race under the scenario you presented, then the complaints will roll in that NASCAR and Goodyear did not do enough to try and provide a safe racing tire.

NASCAR and Goodyear did all they can do, all Goodyear can do is to try and make a tire that can work better on the COT

Not right at all...changing the tires wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars that teams spent trying to collect data so that they could perform well at the track. Everything they learned had to be thrown out the window.

You pretty much summed up Tony Stewarts argument.
And though I don't care for Stewart, I totally agree with you and him on this one.
Kasey Kahne Normally doesn't just lose it on the tri oval but with that tire compound, he was the first one around.GO # 9