Brickyard tire fiasco for NASCAR

[Scott]

But they managed it much better than the FIA.  All the FIA had to do was to agree to a chicaine...the NASCAR fans had to put up with competition yellow's ever 12 laps.

The report is here:

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=439066

[cosworth151]

Almost a third of the race was run under yellow flags. Here's NASCAR's official take on the matter:

http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/headlines/cup/07/27/brickyard.tires.saga/1.html

Notice how NASCAR publishes criticism of itself on its own site. can you imagine F1 doing that?

[Steven Roy]

This is getting ridiculous.  Once is understandable but the same problem happens on the same track again.  Full course yellows every 12 laps is not racing.  Had I been there I would have prefered to leave than watch a complete farce.  F1's solution was equally pathetic.

The people I feel sorry for are the Moto GP riders who race there soon.  A tyre failure on an F1 or stock car at high speed is one thing but on a Moto GP bike it is a whole different matter.

[cosworth151]

The diamond cut pavement is only on the oval section of the track, not the road course sections. The problem at the 2005 USGP was in Turn 13 (Turn 1 on the oval). That corner has been eliminated with the new road course configuration.

The IRL has had no problems with the surface. Their tires come from Bridgestone-owned Firestone.