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🏎 NASCAR Debuts Option Tires for Million Dollar All-Star Weekend

🏎 NASCAR Debuts Option Tires for Million Dollar All-Star Weekend

NASCAR Teams will have three different choices of tires to choose from for All-Star Race

Kyle Dager
May 17, 2024

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NASCAR Introduces Tire Tactics

🏁 Tire Tactics at the All-Star Race 🏎️ - NASCAR is set to add a new tire twist at the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway. This Sunday, drivers compete for a whopping $1 million prize, but the real game-changer could be the strategic use of three different tire types. 🛞

Teams will choose from "prime," "option," and "wet weather" tires, each color-coded for easy identification. The option tires offer a tantalizing four- to five-tenths quicker lap time but come with a trade-off in durability. "With that extra grip and speed comes the fact that the ‘option’ tire will fall off more quickly," notes Goodyear’s Greg Stucker, highlighting the crucial balance teams must find between speed and tire longevity. 🕒

Rodney Childers, a veteran crew chief, sees Saturday's heat races as key to strategy: "it’s going to be interesting to see what happens in those heat races on Saturday because really what happens there is what’s going to determine what we do for the Open." The choice? Stick with the durable but slower primes or risk more pit stops for the faster options. 🔄