The Food City 500 at the Bristol Motor Speedway provided a challenging race for drivers and teams due to the insan💯e level of tyre degradation during the race.

Throughout the 500 laps, the Goodyear tyres struggled, leading to the release of an extra set of 🙈tyres to each driver during the race t🍌o 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 t🌳his weekend:

“Obviously this is the same package that we raced here, very successfully, last fall with the goal to generate more ty🦩re wear, which we did then. We ran f🎃our fuel stops and everything looked very, very good so we did not have any concerns coming here this weekend.”

He was also a♒sked about what Goodyear♏ and NASCAR will do after the tyre issues this weekend:

“We meet with NASCAR every 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 from the teams and the driღvers that will be very important.”

Stucker was questioned more ab🎉out why the tyres behaved so differently at the Bristol Motor Speedway 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 o🀅f the resin, we are trying to understand how much impact that is having.”

Luckily Goodyear did have sp🧸are 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 case of an ‘emergency’:

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