Testing Policy Getting Neutered
It looks like NASCAR is finally waking up the fact that their testing policy was almost a useless policy, simply because teams went and tested at non-NASCAR-sanctioned race tracks. The only down side to this was that teams had to use non-Goodyear tires, so many went and purchased B.F. Goodrich race tires, simply for testing purposes. This caused a two-fold problem.
First, Goodyear is the “official” sponsor of NASCAR as such, the only supplier of tires for the race teams when racing or practicing on NASCAR-sanctioned race tracks. So in this case, teams went and spent money on tire manufacturers (B.F. Goodrich, or Hoosier), that should have went to Goodyear. And secondly, I’m not sure there was a whole lot gained by the teams simply because they were using non-Goodyear tires, and there’s no way to predict how much value the teams got out of testing because of this.
Remember, the testing policy was put in place to “level the playing field” so that single-car teams wouldn’t have to expend extravagant testing dollars to keep up with the multi-car teams. But in this case, NASCAR realizes you can’t prevent teams from testing, unless you bar them completely from testing anywhere, and I don’t see that happening.
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