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Originally Posted by Pitdad
...but then Clinton Boyles threw me for a loop when he said the harder tire was responsible for the track taking rubber in Saturday's A because the harder tire would slip where the softer tire wouldn't.
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That confused me, too, Dad. I always thought the harder tire would give up less rubber than the softer. That is why they had the harder tire - to make them last longer.
But I am not going to argue with Clinton. I can kind of see the logic in what he said when you take in track conditions ALONG with the hardness of the tires. His insight during the week was second to none in any other form of motorsports. Especially when analyzing crash damage on the cars from the announcers' booth.
I just wondered why he threw the flurry of "s" bombs at the one point later in the evening.