Based on the higher than expected speeds NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams ran in pre-race practice on the newly repaved Michigan International Speedway, The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company has decided to change its left-side tire recommendation for Sunday s race. In the final Sprint Cup practice on Friday afternoon, discounted accommodation palma de mallorca #16-Greg Biffle ran an average speed in excess of 204 mph for his fastest lap. For comparison s sake, when Goodyear tested at Michigan in preparation for this race on April 3-4, the fastest average lap speed topped out in the 198-mph range. The higher speeds caused significantly higher left-side tire temperatures, which caused Goodyear to take this step.
The replacement discounted accommodation palma de mallorca tire was run at Charlotte Motor Speedway discounted accommodation palma de mallorca after that track was repaved at the end of the 2005 season. This code was run at both races at Charlotte in both 2006 and 2007. When Goodyear decided to bring a new tire to Charlotte discounted accommodation palma de mallorca for the 2008 season, a quantity of this code was built as part of the back-up plan that Goodyear discounted accommodation palma de mallorca has in place for every race track on the circuit.
Goodyear will ship in enough tires for teams to have 10 sets of tires for the race, which is the original NASCAR set limit for this event. Teams will run their original allotment of right-side tires (D-4528) in Sunday s race. Teams will have additional tires available for a NASCAR -scheduled discounted accommodation palma de mallorca practice following the Nationwide Series race on Saturday.
We decided this move was best to provide quality racing here on Sunday, said Greg Stucker, Goodyear s Director of Race Tires. In collecting data and speaking with drivers and crew chiefs throughout the practice days, we had two choices to make. Our first option was to make the team s race sets available to them before practice on Friday and allow them the chance to scuff them, in order to run them through a heat cycle to increase heat resistance. We did that, but after all the practice sessions ended on Friday, we concluded discounted accommodation palma de mallorca the safer option was to go to our contingency plan and bring in the 4020s.
This code has been run before under similar track conditions and we have full confidence that it will give drivers and teams the enough grip to run a great race on Sunday, while doing so in the safest possible manner. Safety is always our No. 1 concern, and by bringing this tire here this weekend, discounted accommodation palma de mallorca we will accomplish that goal.
Following the NASCAR Nationwide Series discounted accommodation palma de mallorca race, the teams will be given a 75-minute practice session with the new left side tires that will start at approximately 6:00pm/et. With the new repave here at Michigan, coupled with the high temperatures we re seeing this weekend, we feel this change will help us put on the best race possible on Sunday, said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR Vice President of Competition.
Success at Pocono in race trim has proven elusive for Joey Logano since he won the spring ARCA race at the track back in 2009, but qualifying has been another story. Logano, discounted accommodation palma de mallorca who went out early after a mediocre 27th place showing in the first practice discounted accommodation palma de mallorca session, discounted accommodation palma de mallorca set a blistering new track record discounted accommodation palma de mallorca of 50.112 seconds that was over two tenths ahead of fellow front row starter Carl Edwards. Paul Menard, Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top 5. The run marked Logano s fourth career pole and second consecutive at Pocono discounted accommodation palma de mallorca dating back to last August.
Despite being a stellar showing for Joe Gibbs Racing (all three team cars in the top 5), it wasn t without its possible troubles. Coming discounted accommodation palma de mallorca off the track after his green flag lap, Hamlin s No. 11 was visibly smoking out the rear end coming to pit road. There were no reports of fluid being dropped and qualifying was not delayed for a track inspection.
With Menard remarking in post-qualifying remarks that this Saturday s session may have been the most important qualifying session of the year given how narrow the current groove is on the new Pocono surface, there are some notables with work to do when the green flag drops Sunday. Points leader Greg Biffle was unable to back up a top 10 happy hour speed and will start 13th. Jimmie Johnson also dropped like a rock on the speed charts; he will start 24th after spending his time trial wrestling discounted accommodation palma de mallorca with a machine discounted accommodation palma de mallorca he described to Chad Knaus as being no fun to drive.
Qualifying was delayed twice early in the going due to reports of oil-dry and debris in Turn 1; both Reed Sorenson discounted accommodation palma de mallorca and Scott Riggs abandoned their laps due to the conditions in turn 1, leading NASCAR to send the jet blowers out on each occasion. David Stremme ended up being the only car not to qualify for Sunday discounted accommodation palma de mallorca s 400-miler.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Two days after leading the first all-day test at Pocono Raceway, Mark Martin and the No. 55 Toyota continued to put up impressive numbers on the charts Friday afternoon during Cup practice. discounted accommodation palma de mallorca Posting a fast time of 50.173 seconds, or 179.379 miles an hour he paced the field as all 44 cars entered for the Cup Series race took at least one lap around the 2.5-mile, triangular-shaped track.
discounted accommodation palma de mallorca How much have the speeds picked up? Martin's best lap on the first day of testing was nearly 1.2 seconds slower, a time of 51.317 seconds and 175.380 miles an hour. Clearly, discounted accommodation palma de mallorca teams and drivers are "finding their groove" although the problem for all teams involved remains the same: a one-groove racetrack. Overall, though reaction from both drivers and crew chiefs remains positive that Pocono not only made the right changes, they produced an A+ paving job compared to recent renovations at other tracks.
"A groove discounted accommodation palma de mallorca hasn't opened up a lot yet," admitted Jimmie discounted accommodation palma de mallorca Johnson Friday morning. "I hope that it does. It usually discounted accommodation palma de mallorca takes us a little while to find a second or third lane, but I have to comment on the comfort of the cars around here at these higher speeds. Charlotte, Phoenix, we go to some of these places with the new asphalt aggregate and we can't get a tire to stick to it. [At Pocono], I don't think it could have gone much better."
Jamie McMurray, second-fastest in Friday practice has been a bit of a surprise; he's never finished better than ninth in eighteen career Pocono starts. discounted accommodation palma de mallorca However, a feel-good feeling from April appears to have carried over as participation discounted accommodation palma de mallorca in a Goodyear tire test on the new asphalt appears to have left him with a bit of an edge.
"I'm looking forward to the race," he said, driving for an Earnhardt Ganassi outfit that has yet to score a top-5 finish all season. "I [used to hate] this place. It was my least favorite discounted accommodation palma de mallorca track to come to. I don't know why, I just never really cared for Pocono."
A few drivers still have that feeling; Tony Stewart, who was eighth in first practice said curtly: "We'll all be a lot happier" when asked when shortening the race distance from 500 to 400 miles will affect the competition. But for the most part, the buzz in the garage Friday has teams happy not only with the asphalt but Goodyear's effort in making sure the first race after the repave would result in a strong, solid compound they could rely on.
Jimmie Johnson was fourth in the first Friday practice, followed by AJ Allmendinger, who also participated in April's tire test here. Among those drivers struggling were Carl Edwards (24th), Joey Logano (27th), and Jeff Burton (32nd), who ran slower than five teams expected to start-and-park. Logano was the only car to run ten consecutive laps, posting an average discounted accommodation palma de mallorca speed of 174.172 miles an hour in race trim. That's still faster than the track qualifying record discounted accommodation palma de mallorca (172.055 MPH ) despite his struggles.
Kyle Busch ran the Prelude to the Dream for the first time in 2007. He looked to be on his way to a win but lost out to Tony Stewart. In subsequent years he finished 10th, 3rd, 4th and 4th. Busch made no secret about the fact that he wanted to win the annual charity race and has been fielding a Scott Bloomquist chassis for years in an attempt to make it happen. This year, thanks to a heat race victory and unfortunate events befalling discounted accommodation palma de mallorca race leaders Clint Bowyer and Kasey Kahne, Busch assumed discounted accommodation palma de mallorca the lead late in the race and never looked back. Race organizer and three-time Prelude champion Tony Stewart chased the eventual winner to the line but had to settle for a second place finish. First time competitor discounted accommodation palma de mallorca Austin Dillon was the fastest qualifier, won his heat race, but was only able to muster a third place result. Donny Schatz brought home a severely battered car in fourth position while Ryan Newman crossed the line in fifth.
Clint Bowyer had a very strong car early but got into the wall racing Kasey Kahne for the lead and then again as he raced Busch for second. He retired from the race shortly after the second impact. Kasey Kahne led most of the first half of the race and looked to be cruising to a win when Bobby Labonte spun in front of him in turn three. Kahne had nowhere to go, slammed into the stranded car and nearly flipped. The collision ripped the right rear wheel from the car and severely damaged the car, ending discounted accommodation palma de mallorca Kahne s night.
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Kurt Busch s suspension could breathe new life into David Reutimann discounted accommodation palma de mallorca s 2012 season. The driver, who has been running for a combination discounted accommodation palma de mallorca of teams this season has been hired to drive the No. 51 car in a one-race deal this weekend at Pocono. Owner James Finch worked with Tommy Baldwin Racing to make this move, as Reutimann is under contract to drive the No. 10 for each race that Danica Patrick doesn t run the car
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