MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- A week that began with NASCAR apologizing for the embarrassing tire situation at the Brickyard, ended in similar fashion as Pocono winner Carl Edwards apologized for fighting with crew chief Bob Osborne over pit strategy in Sunday's Sprint Cup race. In other words, just another week at the races.
But there's another person who has a little apologizing to do. And it's none other that Dale Earnhardt Jr., himself.
In the wake of the Allstate 400 at Indy, where Goodyear's tires were so bad that the longest green-flag run was 12 laps, Earnhardt had this to say last week: I'll tell you this. Tony George [owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway] said that they weren't changing the track and I don't blame them. It's expensive to pave the track
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Carl Edwards, who won Sunday's much dryer race at Pocono, actually stuck a squeegee out the window while driving under caution to try to clear a line of sight.
In the end, Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s driver, Ron Fellows, won the race that was shortened from 74 to 48 laps. He did it on 1999 Goodyear rain tires.
Most drivers were pleased with how the grooved tires worked in the rain, although NASCAR probably won't make a habit of running races in the rain.
'We felt the race probably came off as good as it could have,' Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR, said Sunday at Pocono Raceway. 'In hindsight, there might have been one or two little things we could have done different
Source link: http://www.mlive.com/autoracing/index.ssf/2008/08/racing_in_the_rain_proves_ente.html
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