{"id":159325,"date":"2025-08-19T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159325\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:54:16","slug":"richard-petty-blasts-nascar-goodyear-over-tire-combination-used-at-richmond-kills-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159325\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Petty blasts NASCAR, Goodyear over tire combination used at Richmond: ‘Kills the race’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> Hall of Famer Richard Petty<\/strong> had a major problem with this past Saturday\u2019s Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway. From the moment the green flag was thrown, Petty said that drivers and teams were focused on tire strategy and not actually \u201cracing each other.\u201d <\/p>\n

Petty wanted to see the fastest cars running up front at Richmond. He doesn\u2019t believe that\u2019s how the race played out. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they throwed the green flag, everybody said, \u2018OK, what are we going to do on tires.\u2019 Not, \u2018What are we going to do racing each other?\u2019 \u2026 The big deal is when they run a race, I like to see the cars that are the fastest, up front racing,\u201d Petty said, via Petty Family Racing<\/a> on YouTube. \u201cNot because of strategy, but because the driver and the car got to go race each other and not wait on how you make a pit stop or when everything falls.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR and Goodyear brought the same tire combination used at Bowman Gray Stadium, Martinsville Speedway and North Wilkesboro Speedway earlier this season. The right-side tire was the identical \u201coption\u201d used at Richmond last season, while the left-side tire was slightly softer. This particular combination was introduced at Martinsville last November. It was designed to create significant fall-off over the course of a run. <\/p>\n

That it did as we saw throughout 400 laps of short track racing under the lights. Austin Dillon<\/strong> and the No. 3 team played the tire strategy to perfection and won the race. <\/p>\n

Richard Petty did not like what he saw at Richmond<\/p>\n

Petty, however, didn\u2019t find much enjoyment in the race. He accused Goodyear of \u201ctrying to please somebody\u201d and \u201cwasting their time\u201d trying to develop new tires. <\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a spectator standpoint, you\u2019re sitting in the grandstand and no way you can follow all that stuff,\u201d Petty said. \u201c\u2026 I think somewhere it\u2019s the drivers and most likely not the owners, NASCAR or the TV or whoever, is telling Goodyear and they\u2019re working their butt off trying to please somebody. Really, they just need four or five kinds of tires and run them the rest of the year. With that much fall-off, it just really kills the race. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s just a second fall-off over a period of time, everybody can adapt to that particular deal. But when you run a tire, and it falls off a second. And then all of a sudden it quits\u2026 that just ruins everything. Goodyear\u2019s trying to please somebody, and they\u2019re spending a lot of money and doing a lot of research. I think they\u2019re wasting their time because it really messes up the racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty had a major problem with this past Saturday\u2019s Cup Series race at…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-159325","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\/115057424126372733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159325","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=159325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}