Nashville Superspeedway Pre-Race Thread

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38 Cup cars for Nashville. 15-Herbst 16-Allmendinger 50(23XI)-Heim 66-Finchum

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Where did Carl Long pull Chad Finchum out of? He hasn't made a Cup start since 2021 and has only made 14 Xfinity starts since 2021.
 
I can't believe this isn't a night race again. It's going to be in the mid 90's around the start of race.
 

Goodyear Fast Facts — Nashville​

NASCAR Cup Series – Race No. 19 – 300 laps / 400 miles Nashville Superspeedway (1.333-mile oval) – Lebanon, Tenn.
Fast Facts for June 29-30, 2024:

Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Speedway Radials

Set limits: Cup – 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 10 sets for the race (9 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5186; Right-side — D-5222

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,263 mm (89.09 in.); Right-side — 2,277 mm (89.65 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 20 psi; Left Rear — 22 psi; Right Front — 44 psi; Right Rear — 42 psi

Storyline – Concrete + resin will lead to multiple racing grooves at Nashville: Nashville Superspeedway is the longest concrete track on the Cup circuit at 1.333 miles. That surface, along with the resin applied, make it a challenge for drivers and teams to keep up with. Goodyear designs its tread compounds for concrete tracks to rubber-in the surface quickly and consistently, enabling drivers to change lanes as the race goes on in search of grip. Air pressure in the rear tires will be important at Nashville. As teams use air pressure to gain grip, going too far below Goodyear’s recommended levels can cause over-deflection in the tire, which can damage the sidewall of the tire to the point of air loss.

“Laying rubber on the track surface is always the number one goal when we race on concrete,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “Nashville adds resin to the track surface to help accelerate the rubbering-in process, so we should be able to develop multiple grooves over the course of the weekend. When drivers are able to change lanes as the track takes rubber, that leads to more side-by-side racing and a more competitive race.

Notes – Fourth race this season on this tire set-up for Cup cars: Being on 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series at Nashville this week . . . this is the same left-side tire Cup teams ran at Nashville last season, but with a different right-side tire (construction update) . . . Cup teams have run this same combination of left- and right-side tires at Las Vegas, Texas and Kansas earlier this season, and are scheduled to run it again at Pocono in July . . . with this 18-inch tire and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.
 
Speedbowl14 said:
It's on the schedule every single week, multiple times a weekend. I am ASSuming it's what it it sounds like... NASCAR drives a safety truck around and measures the friction of the surface for tire data. .
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So it has nothing to do with how well the #5 team gets along on the radio? :blink:
 
Speedbowl14 said:
It's on the schedule every single week, multiple times a weekend. I am ASSuming it's what it it sounds like... NASCAR drives a safety truck around and measures the friction of the surface for tire data. .
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This could've been worded better... I sound like a smart ass in this post... I'm not trying to be.
 
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