NASCAR’s apology went only so far with driver Ryan Newman, who held the governing body responsible for the tire fiasco that ruined the race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend.“NASCAR has the ultimate responsibility,” Newman said Wednesday, during a visit to Buffalo Bills training camp in suburban Rochester. “They are the Barnum and Bailey. They know what’s going on in the center ring. And if they put a tiger out there that’s going to bite somebody, then that’s their responsibility.”
He was careful to say he wasn’t referring to NASCAR as being a circus in voicing his frustrations over a stop-and-go race in which the longest run under green was 13 laps. [Because, God knows what sort of penalty NASCAR/ISC would issue for THAT, lol!!] What troubled Newman, who is from Indiana, is that the problems occurred at Indianapolis.
“Let’s just say, there’s 100 years of automobile racing there. And I bet going back to 19-0-whatever they didn’t have tire problems,” Newman said.
The trouble was blamed on a durability issue involving the compound of the tires Goodyear selected not being strong enough when combined with NASCAR’s current car.
NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton issued an apology Tuesday, saying: “I can’t say how sorry we are and it’s our responsibility being NASCAR that we don’t go through this situation again.” [hehehehehehehehehe ... breath ... hehehehehehehe .... sigh -- good one, Pemberton. Day & dollar late, tho, bud.] Full Story
Hey … Grump?? I’m still thinkin’ COT, lol …
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Good grief, Charlie Brown. The COT is PART if the problem. The bottom line is that NA$CAR FAILED TO SCHEDULE A TEST at Indy for the porky car to see how it would do at the historic track. So it (COT) is guilty by association.
The folks at Goodyear also share part of the blame game since they should have known that the race was doomed as early as Friday practice.
Grumpy applauds Ryan Newman for speaking out. The event was a sorry affair. Every fan who paid good money to be there should be pissed.
Don’t forget the spring race at Atlanta. On that event Goodyear got it wrong on the hard side. The tires were so hard that Fred Flintstone would have been proud. NA$CAR responded with a promise to work more closely with Goodyear to insure that would not happen again. More lip service, apparently.
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