Goodyear officials indicated that a familiar tire setup will be in the hands of NASCAR Cup Series teams this weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The same tire that Cup Series teams used in last October’s postseason race will again be in stock for Sunday’s Pennzoil 400 (4 p.m. ET, FS1, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). The tire configuration debuted last September at Kansas Speedway and was also implemented for the similar 1.5-mile Las Vegas track two weeks later.
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When the tire was introduced, the setup included a new construction of the right-side rubber, paired with left-side tires that appeared in six races last season.
“Teams will be able to lean on their data from October’s races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to refine their strategies for this weekend,” said Justin Fantozzi, Goodyear Director of Racing for the Americas. “The track surface at Las Vegas does not usually encourage much tire wear, so the setups we’ve brought this weekend are designed to shed rubber. That allows heat to dissipate through the tread, keeping the tires cooler and promoting fall-off over the course of a run.”
Each Cup Series team will have an allotment of 10 sets of tires for the race weekend — eight new sets for the race, one for practice, plus one set for qualifying that carries over to Sunday’s 400-miler.
Goodyear’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series tire setup for Saturday’s The LiUNA! (5:30 p.m. ET, The CW, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) will also be a carryover from last season. O’Reilly Series teams will be supplied with six sets — five new sets for the race, plus one from practice.