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Don't understand what all the hysterics with the WoO going to Goodyear are about. It doesn't seem all that long ago that if you wanted the fastest tires for your sprint car (particularly wanged), you had to have GY. At a few places the McCrearys would beat them but the GY was a better overall tire. If you ran Hoosiers, you were in the back. Hoosiers were so bad that they GAVE them to anyone who would run them in USAC. Then Hoosier really stepped up by throwing a bunch of money at the king to switch to Hoosier at the same time they made a big development effort. This was right around when McCreary seemed to run into financial/management issues and Goodyear sent their racing tire manufacturing offshore. The offshore GY sprint tires weren't as good as the handmade US ones. So almost overnight, GY and McCreary faded into non-competiveness and you had to run Hoosier to go fast. GY tires pretty much disappeared from the sprints within a year.
Within the contraints of a tire rule, I'm sure the Goodyears will be just fine.
(anybody remember the Goodyear commercials with big name Indy/NASCAR drivers with AJ and Dale Sr that also included Steve Kinser?)
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