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Originally Posted by dirtywhiteboy
No BUT, they have alot more sheet metal and car around them than a sprint car driver does. If a sprintcar driver gets into a wreck, the chance of injuries is alot higher. Remember the Brickyard 20X20 from 2008? That was a huge tire issue even after Goodyear tested at the track prior to the race. Las Vegas has had Goodyear tire issues as well.
I just hope they do alot better job of tire design for the sprints than they did for NASCAR.
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I would suggest that sheet metal does very little to reduce injuries. And even if it did, that would be an issue of the car not the tire. And even if a sprint car driver does stand a lot higher chance of injury than a stock car driver, which I am not so sure they do, it would still be a problem with the car, not the tire. Yes, I remember the BY race with all the tire problems. Do you remember the "maypops" that both GY and Hoosier provided nascar during their tire war? Any competent tire company and that includes GY and Hoosier can build suitable tires, but they are almost always going to be a compromise.
We used to run Hoosiers on our street stocks. But the fastest guy kept throwing caps. Was that a Hoosier problem? We solved the problem by going to another Hoosier tire.