"Well, I'll say that Goodyear Tyre Company makes good racing tyres. They make a safe tyre," he began, "You know, there's a lot of technology goes into making them tyres and I give them a lot of credit. It's a reputation risk just to be in this sport as a company like that. They can be the quarterback sometimes on Sunday as far as criticism goes. But they do a good job.
"This was just a bad combination, this tyre at this track. I know the tyre we used to run would wear into the cords, but you could still run hard on it. It wasn't dangerous. You would run into the cords and run like that for ten laps. That was a pretty good tyre. Even though it was on a cord, you could still run it for a while, get to the next pit-stop.
"I'll tell you, I'm still seeing the centre line in my tyres, the mould line in my tyre after 30 laps. So I went from running a tyre that would wear to the cord to a tyre that I still see the centre cord after 30 laps. There's got to be several combinations in between that. I mean, Lord, that can't be the next step."
Goodyear marketing manager Justin Fantozzi revealed that, despite the obvious criticism, the company was not disappointed with the selection, and would not be rushed into making changes for the series' return to AMS in October.
“We are tremendously proud of the wear rates we saw here,” Fantozzi said, “We have a defined development for this particular tyre that started in August with a test here in Atlanta.
“We'll do the same thing we do after every race. We have post-race data now, so we will go back to Akron and sit down with engineers and see where that leaves us for the October race. Driver comments are part of the data set we use when selecting tyres, so we will gather input there as well.”
Following the race, Ed Clark, president and general manger for Atlanta Motor Speedway, spoke with Goodyear representatives in an effort to avoid a repeat next time the series visited the circuit.
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