{"id":149275,"date":"2025-08-16T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149275\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T01:26:12","slug":"brad-keselowski-questions-richmond-tire-allotment-but-nascar-sees-no-need-for-more-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149275\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Keselowski questions Richmond tire allotment, but NASCAR sees no need for more sets"},"content":{"rendered":"

RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Brad Keselowski questions if teams will have enough sets of tires for Saturday night\u2019s Cup race at Richmond Raceway, but NASCAR does not plan on approving additional sets for teams before the 400-lap race.<\/p>\n

Richmond Raceway\u2019s abrasive track surface and a softer tire by Goodyear have Keselowski and others in the garage concerned ahead of Saturday\u2019s race (coverage begins at 7 p.m. ET on USA Network).<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the only Cup race at the 0.75-mile this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in trouble,\u201d Keselowski said when asked by NBC Sports if there are enough sets of tires for teams to run the race.<\/p>\n

Keselowski, who starts sixth, admitted \u201cI might be wrong. Maybe something will change and we\u2019ll get in the night time and the tires will extend their life cycle more than what we\u2019ve seen in practice. But right now it does not look good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teams will have eight sets of new tires plus the set of tires they will start Saturday\u2019s race. NASCAR, in consultation with Goodyear, determines how many sets of tires teams are allowed per race.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Preece wins his second career Cup pole.<\/p>\n

Blake Harris, crew chief for Alex Bowman, said a request was made for an extra set of tires.<\/p>\n

Without an extra set, what does Harris envision Saturday night\u2019s race?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like the Truck race,\u201d Harris told NBC Sports. \u201cThey don\u2019t get enough tires and it\u2019s boring. Nobody passes. Nobody can be on off-strategies. Everybody doesn\u2019t stop the first stage and everybody two-stops the second and third stage and then you\u2019ve got one set for one caution the whole race. \u2026 You don\u2019t put tires on until you have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Denny Hamlin seeks to score his sixth Cup win at Richmond this weekend, but teammate Chase Briscoe will among the challengers.<\/p>\n

Lap times in Friday\u2019s Cup practice showed more than a three-second falloff in time from a driver\u2019s best lap to about 40 laps into a run.<\/p>\n

Drivers have continually asked Goodyear to bring a softer tire to tracks so there is more tire wear. The right side tire teams have this weekend is the same as the option tire that was used in this race last year. The left-side tire is \u201cuber soft,\u201d according Rick Heinrich, product manager for Goodyear.<\/p>\n

Heinrich was pleased with what he saw in Friday\u2019s practice with tire wear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve really performed spot-on because we\u2019re seeing that kind of fall-off,\u201d Heinrich told NBC Sports about the tires. \u201cWe\u2019re not seeing people showing that they can\u2019t go as far as they\u2019re going to have to go (Saturday) night. You\u2019re going to have to put at least 37 laps on a set of tires to able to make the math work. We\u2019re seeing people go well beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio he was \u201cnot … impressed\u201d with how Carson Hocevar and Michael McDowell raced each other at Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n

During Friday\u2019s practice, Joey Logano hit the wall after his right front tire lost air pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to the tire was a consequence of air pressure, but we don\u2019t know \u2026 what led to that,\u201d Heinrich said.<\/p>\n

The right-side and left-side tires used at Richmond have been run at Martinsville, Bowman Gray and North Wilkesboro earlier this season. Heinrich confirmed that the Richmond tires will be used for next month\u2019s playoff race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n

Heinrich said no decision has been made on what tires will be used for Martinsville \u2014 the penultimate race in the playoffs \u2014 and the championship race at Phoenix.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure we\u2019re as educated as possible before we make that call,\u201d Heinrich said. \u201c(Saturday) is important for us. What we see, the data, it helps us build that knowledge base to be able to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND, Va. \u2014 Brad Keselowski questions if teams will have enough sets of tires for Saturday night\u2019s Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-149275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035845452044407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}