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ARCA, TRUCKS, XFINITY, and CUP all this weekend

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Different left / right tire codes than they ran at Kansas earlier in the year. Left sides are a new construction.

Goodyear Fast Facts – Kansas​

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 AT 10:00 AM

NASCAR Cup Series — Race No. 28 – 267-laps / 400.5 miles Kansas Speedway (1.5-mile oval) – Kansas City, Kan.Fast Facts for September 10-11, 2022 Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Speedway Radials
Set limits: Cup: 1 set for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 9 sets for the race (8 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)

Tire Codes: Left-side — D-5186; Right-side — D-5190

Tire Circumference: Left-side — 2,254 mm (88.74 in.); Right-side — 2,279 mm (89.72 in.)

Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 20 psi; Left Rear — 22 psi; Right Front — 50 psi; Right Rear — 46 psi
Storyline – Goodyear keeps up with Cup teams by updating tire constructions: Since the Next Gen car debuted in February, NASCAR Cup teams have gone to work on figuring it out and gaining performance. Goodyear has kept up with those developments through evaluating the on-track racing, as well as additional testing. The tire maker held test sessions at both Charlotte Motor Speedway and Pocono Raceway this spring and brought forward a construction update to its tires for the intermediate speedways, having seen on track how the speeds and loads on the new car have changed from the previous generation’s.

“We obviously started 2022 with a new car, and all those involved in the sport have learned a lot over the ensuing months,” said Greg Stucker, Goodyear’s director of racing. “The loads generated on this Next Gen car are quite different than the past, so we evaluated what we saw early in the season and designed some construction updates that we were able to test on track before we unveiled the right side enhancements at the Pocono and Michigan races earlier this summer. We had good feedback from the drivers throughout the process and have had good results on the track since. The combination we are running at Kansas this week, which will also be run at Texas and Las Vegas, introduces a left side construction enhancement to be paired with that right-side already introduced. This combination was confirmed in testing at Charlotte in early August.”

Notes – Updated tire set-up for Cup cars at Kansas: Having moved to an 18-inch bead diameter tire for 2022, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series at Kansas this weekend . . . these are two different tire codes than what Cup teams ran at Kansas in May . . . compared to that earlier race, there are construction updates to both the left- and right-side tires . . . this right-side tire code debuted at Pocono in July . . . Cup teams will run this same tire set-up at both Texas and Las Vegas later in the playoffs . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars will not run inner liners in any of their tires in 2022.
 
Yah know, white umbrellas do a better job of deflecting the heat of sunlight than black ones do. You'd think an organization that thrived on engineering would know that.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Yah know, white umbrellas do a better job of deflecting the heat of sunlight than black ones do. You'd think an organization that thrived on engineering would know that.
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That didn't make it beyond the fashion department. The 24 car's are a different story
 
Starting to wonder about the 9 team. May have peaked too soon. We'll see
 
What's up with the pace of the 9 these last two weeks?

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The 9 just fully giving up first round of the playoffs. I knew this s%$& was going to happen. The entire great run all year, I just had a feeling he wouldn't make it out of the first round. Hope I'm wrong. Back to watching larson outrun him weekly again
 
34R7H130UND said:
The 9 just fully giving up first round of the playoffs. I knew this s%$& was going to happen. The entire great run all year, I just had a feeling he wouldn't make it out of the first round. Hope I'm wrong. Back to watching larson outrun him weekly again
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They all got cleaning up to do, imo.



There has not been a clear cut fastest car this year. There's been a clear cut best executing car. But in terms of speed, you could throw a blanket over the 9, 11, 5, 22 and 18 this year, it seems.

But these last few weeks have been weird.

Chase was the fastest car in 2020, ALL of 2020 (I'll die on that hill). Just had piss poor race and driver execution. But when it came down to crunch time, they cleaned up, and the fastest car won the chase. To me that championship felt inevitable. This year doesn't feel like anything like that.

22 is the most dangerous team this year and my personal pick for champion. I don't think anyone is more hungry than Logano this season, and it seems like outside of the 9, they're truly getting everything out of everything.

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