Nashville Speedway Cracker Barrel 400 Pre-Race Thread

[StandOnIt]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[aunty dive]

NASCAR Cup Series – Race No. 14 – 300 laps / 400 miles
Nashville Superspeedway (1.333-mile oval) – Lebanon, Tenn.
Fast Facts for May 31-June 1, 2025

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-5184; 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

Notes – Sixth 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 right-side tire Cup teams ran at Nashville last season, but with a different left-side tire . . . compared to what was run at this track in 2024, this left-side features a compound change for more tire wear and lap-time fall-off . . . Cup teams have run this same combination of left- and right-side tires at Las Vegas, Homestead, Darlington, Texas and Kansas earlier this season . . . with this 18-inch tire and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.

Goodyear quote – Stu Grant, Goodyear’s general manger of global race tires: “Nashville is a fun challenge for the teams, being a fast, 1.3-mile track with a concrete surface. We have a different left-side than we ran there last year, but teams should have a good notebook built up on this set-up because we’ve run it several times this season.”

 

[Jorge De Guzman]

Oh nice, Sunday Night NASCAR!

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[StandOnIt]

They are finally starting to put Heim in a competitive Cup car, he might be one to watch.

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[StandOnIt]

 

[BobbyFord]

This POS car is sooooo anti-stock car.

 

[rd45usa]

Whoever did that patchwork ought to be fired.

 

[Speedbowl14]

Larson really slow so far this weekend. Very strange they are rarely so off.

 

[StandOnIt]

Larson really slow so far this weekend. Very strange they are rarely so off.

Yeah it's interesting.

 

[Revman]

Larson really slow so far this weekend. Very strange they are rarely so off.

We should postpone I think until Kyle is comfortable.

 

[Revman]

Yeah it's interesting.
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Fast Toyotas.....but never mind, back to Larson. WE need Jordan to help us out today.

 

[StandOnIt]

Fast Toyotas.....but never mind, back to Larson. WE need Jordan to help us out today.

It seems more often than not that when the yoters qualify well, they have missed the setup for longer runs and they soon fall back fairly quickly in the first stage. I call it pre yoter ejaculation.

 

[Brentford]

Not feeling overly confident about the forecast tonight. Spotty storms all night, so even if it doesn’t rain over the track, there will probably be some lightning delays.

 

[Revman]

It seems more often than not that when the yoters qualify well, they have missed the setup for longer runs and they soon fall back fairly quickly in the first stage. I call it pre yoter ejaculation.

Smoke out yer ass again....but ya got some likes so all good. Your boy got through two corners this weekend before spinning. I think he is gaining on it.

 

[StandOnIt]

Smoke out yer ass again....but ya got some likes so all good. Your boy got through two corners this weekend before spinning. I think he is gaining on it.

Better luck next week.

 

[Revman]

Better luck next week.

Five in the Top 10. Don't need luck. Doin' just fine. More smoke.