Have there been alot of drivers hurt or killed due to nascar tires?

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.

I really dont see it being an issue cuz we are sliding a 3200lbs race car around on pavement at 180+mph so i would say that the tire construction is probably a litle less of an issue for us, I know its important but i dont see it being as big of an issue

Goodyear made dirt tires for years without major safety problems. Go back a few years and most if not all the top teams ran Goodyear.

I know Brandon Wimmer (Rick Ferkel's car) runs goodyears

I think that a few tracks the outlaws race at only sanction hoosier tires

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.

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?)

when woo come's to town it's thier rule's that they go by, not the track.

i hear knoxville will also be mandating goodyears on the rear as well in the 410 class.