The Food City 500 at the Bristol Moto🍸r Speedway provided a challenging race for drivers and teams due to the insane level of tyre degradation during the race.

Throughout the 500 laps, the Goodyear tyres s𒊎truggled, leading to t♔he release of an extra set of tyres to each driver during the race to ensure all drivers could reach the chequered flag.

After the race Goodyears Director of Racing Greg Stucker💧 spoke to Fox Sports about where Goodyear and NASCAR go from here after the tyre struggles this weekend:

“Obviously this is the same package that we raced here, very successfully, last fall with the goal to generate more tyre wear, which we did 𒁃then. We ran four fuel stops and everything looked very, very good so we🌠 did not have any concerns coming here this weekend.”

He was also asked about what Goodyear and NASCAR will ꩵdo after the tyre issues this weekend:

“We meet with NASCAR e♕very week and we talk about the previous weekends racing; we do that every Tuesday. We will probably have a bit more of a discussion tonight and understand exactly what everybody saw, and we will go off the feedback f🅷rom the teams and the drivers that will be very important.”

Stuckeꦐr was questioned more about why the tyres behaved so differently at the Bristol Motor Spe♚edway this weekend compared to last fall when they worked well:

“That is what we are really trying to figure out. I think there is one difference with the racetrack with the application of the resin, we are trying to u🌟nderstand how much impact that is having.”

Luckily Goodyear d✤id have spare tyres on hand from last fall to give to the drivers in the middle of the race, something that Stucker claims they have on hand at every race in cas🐻e of an ‘emergency’:

“We always have extra tyres on hand in case of an emergency. Obviously, that is what we had this we꧒ekend, so we were able to pull them out so that everybody had the same allotment of theꦐ fresh production and one set of tyres from last fall.”