Archives for: August 2008

Mailbag: Tire Codes, Bristol Waves and the Science of Cheating

08/27/08 | by diandra [mail] | Categories: Waves, Tires, Goodyear, rubber, Grip, Cheating
Just when you think things can't get any busier, they do. It's the end of the fiscal year at my university, which means getting buried in a mound of paperwork. We're doing three workshops this fall for teachers on using NASCAR to get kids interested in m… more »

Magnets and Dynomometers

I have never seen Robin Pemberton looking so disgusted as he did during an interview replayed on NASCAR Now Monday evening. (Well, maybe not since Daytona 2007.) NASCAR did a chassis dyno test after the Michigan race on a number of NASCAR Nationwide cars… more »

Goodyear Knows what went Wrong at Indy

08/12/08 | by diandra [mail] | Categories: Tires, Goodyear, Indianapolis
Goodyear has figured out (or at least thinks they have a good idea) what the problem was with the Indy tires. They confirmed that the tire compound was indeed the one they intended to use and identical to the one they've run there the last two years. The… more »

Goodyear's Tire Solution

08/04/08 | by diandra [mail] | Categories: Tires, Goodyear, Pocono
There's a wonderful gadget called wordle that analyzes text and picks out the words that are used with greatest frequency. So I had it analyze the blog and this is what it came up with. Maybe it's because they counted tire and tires as two separate wor… more »

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