O’Donnell: Sanctioning body, Goodyear have ‘regularly scheduled audits’
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Following Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, NASCAR took the tires from race winner Kevin Harvick and eighth-place finisher Joey Logano as part of a tire audit.
On Tuesday, the sanctioning body confirmed that the tires on the top two drivers in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points standings were fine.
“We’ve got regularly scheduled audits that we do throughout the year,” NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell said Monday on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “We’ve done it in the past as well.
“Just something that we check in terms of working with Goodyear, making sure that the tires that were supplied were where we wanted them to be which we fully expect.”
In addition to working with its official tire supplier, O’Donnell described how NASCAR works with the teams as well.
“On Mondays, we’ve got a post-race call with Goodyear to talk about what we saw at the race, what we want to do going forward, especially when we’ve got a venue where we’re going to come back to and make sure we’ve got the right tire codes in place.
“Really a collaborative effort between the two of us, and then also with the race teams. We’ll talk to them about what we see and what they felt about the tire out in Phoenix as well.”
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