GARAGE TALK #2: New Goodyear Rain Tires & Rain Car Setup

UNB NETWORK STAFF REPORT

Fighting The Rain

Both of this weekend's NASCAR races at Watkins Glen International have a slight chance for rain.

But Steve O'Donnell, Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer of NASCAR told NASCAR.com that if it rains on Sunday for the Sprint Cup Series race at the Gken "the same rules will apply that we've had in the XFINITY Series."

O'Donnell refers to the NASCAR XFINITY Series because the XFINITY Series has races in wet conditions before. In 2008 and 2009, at Circuit Gilles Villenueuve in Montreal, Canada, the series did it, and did it last year at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

Goodyear will be supplying race teams with rain tires that are meant to be run in wet track conditions.

Teams will be required to install a functional windshield wiper motor, window flashing lights, and a defogger on their cars for this weekend's racing activities.

"We've also got Air Titans that we can deploy," O'Donnell also told NASCAR.com "if there is excess water in certain areas (of the track)."

Goodyear "Wet" Tires

Goodyear will be giving NASCAR a tire with the same tire code that was run by the NASCAR XFINITY Series teams at Watkins Glen in 2013, and last year in the same series at Road America.

Should I train, teams will pull into their assigned pit stalls, and apply the wet weather tires, and install the defogger, windshield wipers, and the rear flashing lights should be turned on at this time

The "Wet" weather tire is meant to be ran or used in wet or rainy conditions.