NASCAR Cup Series – Race No. 32 – 109 laps / 248.5 miles
Charlotte Motor Speedway (2.28-mile roval) – Concord, N.C.
Fast Facts for October 12-13, 2024
Tire: Goodyear Eagle 18-inch Road Course Radials
Set limits: Cup: 2 sets for practice, 1 set for qualifying and 8 sets for the race
(7 race sets plus 1 set transferred from qualifying)
Tire Code: D-5252 (same on all four tire positions)
Tire Circumference: 2,279 mm (89.72 in.)
Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 26 psi; Right Front — 28 psi;
Left Rear — 20 psi; Right Rear — 20 psi
Storyline – Charlotte roval rounds out wide-ranging road course schedule: The NASCAR Cup Series schedule has visited a diverse group of road courses in 2024, from the well-designed Circuit of The Americas to the street course in downtown Chicago and the technical Sonoma Raceway to the high-speed Watkins Glen International. These teams now take on the Charlotte roval, which combines a couple chicanes, a slower-speed section in the infield and the majority of the track’s oval. Cup teams have some familiarity with this tire, having run it at both Sonoma Raceway and the Chicago street course this summer.
Notes – Cup cars on Sonoma/Chicago tire on Charlotte roval: Being on an 18-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Cup teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Xfinity Series on the Charlotte roval this week . . . compared to what Cup teams ran at this course last season, this tire features a construction update and more tread thickness . . . these teams have run this tire on two road/street courses already this season – Sonoma and Chicago . . . with this 18-inch tire, and its lower profile sidewall, NASCAR Cup cars do not run inner liners in any of their tires.
Wet Weather Tires – Goodyear brings white-lettered “wets” to Charlotte roval: Goodyear will bring its 18-inch wet weather radial tires to the Charlotte roval for the NASCAR Cup cars, should NASCAR determine that conditions warrant . . . Cup teams will have a maximum of 6 sets of wet weather tires for the event . . . NASCAR Cup teams last ran the wet weather tire in competition at Chicago in July . . . in addition to the obvious difference of a tread pattern versus Goodyear’s dry weather “slick” tires, the “Goodyear” and “Eagle” lettering on the sidewalls of the wet weather tires is white, not the standard yellow.
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GOODYEAR TIRE NOTES
NASCAR Xfinity Series – Race No. 29 – 67 laps / 152.8 miles
Charlotte Motor Speedway (2.28-mile roval) – Concord, N.C.
Fast Facts for October 12, 2024
Tire: Goodyear Eagle 15-inch Road Course Radials
Set limits: Xfinity: 6 sets for the event
Tire Code: D-6144 (same on all four tire positions)
Tire Circumference: 2,240 mm (88.19 in.)
Minimum Recommended Inflation: Left Front — 26 psi; Right Front — 28 psi;
Left Rear — 20 psi; Right Rear — 20 psi
Notes – Sixth road course race on this tire for Xfinity teams: Being on 15-inch bead diameter tires, NASCAR Xfinity Series teams will run a different tire than those in the Cup Series at the Charlotte roval this week . . . teams will run the same Goodyear tire code on all four tire positions . . . this tire debuted at COTA earlier this season, and Xfinity teams have run it at Portland, Sonoma, Chicago and Watkins Glen since then . . . compared to what was run on the Charlotte roval last year, this tire features a construction update . . . as on all NASCAR road courses, teams will not run inner liners in their tires on the Charlotte roval.
Wet Weather Tires – White-lettered tires on hand: Goodyear will bring its 15-inch wet weather radials to the Charlotte roval for use by Xfinity Series teams, should NASCAR decide that conditions warrant . . . Xfinity teams will have 5 sets of wets available for the event, with a maximum of 4 sets for the race . . . Xfinity teams last ran in wet conditions at New Hampshire in June . . . in addition to the obvious difference of a tread pattern versus Goodyear’s dry weather “slick” tires, the “Goodyear” and “Eagle” lettering on the sidewalls of the wet weather tires is white, not the standard yellow.
Follow us on Twitter: @GoodyearRacing.
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